Cadence Basic Fetal Monitor: On Ritual Purposes of Fetal Monitoring »
Posted By ambidextrose 8 months ago in Health & FitnessWhen we speak of rites of passage across cultures, one of the common features of this is the ritual embellishment of the initiates with the visible physical accessories of their alteration. Way back from the so-called primitive societies, which means the time when we just have a low technology, these accessories or adornments are usually consisting of objects representing the most deeply held values and beliefs of the society, such as relics of deities, heroes, or ancestors, sacred drums or other musical instruments.
While if we compare it in Marine basic training, the rifle, backpack, and ammunition belt are the ones said to constitute the sacred symbols with which the initiate is adorned. Such perspective provides a fascinating insight into the symbolic significance of the “EFM,” or the Electronic Fetal Monitoring, with a machine that has itself become the symbol of high technology hospital birth. Observers and participants alike report that the monitor, once attached, becomes the focal point of the labor, as nurses, physicians, husbands, and even laboring women themselves become visually and conceptually glued to the machine, which then shapes their perceptions and interpretations of the birth process.
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