Medicalization is a process which is not medical but which is interpreted as being medical and requiring medical care. Home birth, with the help of a midwife, has been medicalized. The medicalization of pregnancy and birth consists of treating reproduction as a medical problem. Before medicalization, birth and pregnancy were considered a human power. Being pregnant and giving birth were one of humanity's most natural acts, but the medicalization of these acts has also put safe pregnancies at risk. The use of advanced technologies and exposure to medical procedures puts healthy pregnancies at risk of developing problems that did not exist in the first place. From the early stages of pregnancy, the pregnant mother is encouraged to participate in various examinations. As the pregnancy progresses, so does the number of tests. For the purposes of this article, ultrasounds, prenatal genetic testing, cesarean sections, etc. will be classified under tests and procedures. This article will examine the work of the authors: PJ McGann and Peter Conrad (2007), Jessica Shaw (2013) and Marsden Wagner (2010). McGann and Conrad explore how the medicalization of events such as birth and pregnancy can benefit practitioners. This helps explain their investment in the matter and the use of medical procedures. Shaw expands on the strengths of medicalization and the positive effect of using ultrasound, as it helps develop a relationship between parents and fetus in the early stages of pregnancy. While Wagner argues about the negligence of obstetricians in managing pregnancies based on their unique needs. This article studies the negative effect of medicalization which encourages treating all pregnancies medically...... middle of paper ...... parents and fetuses. However, this does not distract from the harms of treating childbirth and pregnancy as medical conditions when in reality they are not. Works Cited • McGann, PJ and Peter Conrad. “Deviance, medicalization of. » Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology. Ritzer, George (ed.). Blackwell Publishing, 2007. Blackwell Reference Online. • Shaw, Jessica CA (2013) “The medicalization of birth and midwifery as resistance. » Health Care for Women International 34: 522-535. • Wagner, Marsden (2010) Born in the United States. Ch. 3, “Choosing and losing: Promoting cesarean section and other invasive procedures”: 37-69• Taylor, Janelle (2008) Ch.3, “Obstetric ultrasound between medical practice and public culture”, The Public Life of Fetal Ultrasound: Technology, Consumption, and Reproductive Politics (New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers UP): 52-76.