In this chapter, I discuss the impact of the 2009 legal recogniton of obstetic violence on birth care services and the taining of the next
generaton of health providers as well as residents in obstetics and gynecology and in midwifery in Argentina. Using interview data with
caregivers, I analyze the successful case of the public Estela de Carloto MaternitHospital (MEC-Maternidad Estela de Carloto), which was
able to implement a healthy and physiologic model of care; the hospital shifed its incidence of medical interventon (for example, caesarean
sectons and labour inductons) to within and below recommendatons fom the World Health Organizaton (WHO) after the enactment of
Argentinian laws on humanized birth and obstetic violence. I use data derived fom wider ethnographic feldwork undertaken in Argentina between October 2016 and August 2017 within the project “Obstetic Violence: Te New Goal for Research, Policies, and Human Rights on Childbirth” (2016-2018).
