A bábamesterség átalakulása a XX. század közepén

Abstract

In this paper an analysis of the transformation of hungarian birth culture and midwifery are given. The research is based on the professional objects and diaries of a midwife from Rinyaújlak, Somogy County (now the property of the City Museum of nagyatád) and on interviews with a midwife from nagyatád. The main argument of the paper is that in the middle of the last century a hybrid birth culture can be ob-served that is a mixture of traditional midwifery and the mod-ern medicalized culture of birth identified with hospital care.