Resumen

GIL, Maria José. Dar sem (se) perder. Aná. Psicológica [online]. 1998, vol.16, n.3, pp.393-404. ISSN 0870-8231.

This is a brief historical review of the attitudes toward child labour throughout time and cultures. Labour nowadays is carried out in a hospital context, and it is considered mainly as a medical act. The epidural analgesic is now common in childbirth, and we discuss the psychological aspects of the request for this analgesic and the attitudes towards the suggestions of the health technicians. Which are the reasons that parturient women invoke in relation to epidural analgesic through labour? This is the main question of this exploratory study.

Palabras clave : Labour; pain; epidural.

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