Раждането в логиката на модерните институции
The Birth in the Logic of Modern Institutions

Summary/Abstract: The text seeks to problematize the 'naturality' of the birth in a clinic and to demonstrate how it is 'inscribed' in a much more general social logic, the one of the modern era. It uses the term 'publicisation1 to show more incisively the changes accompanying the transfer of the birth act from the home to the clinic as a change in the degrees of visibility. It partially uses M. Foucault's analysis of disciplinary institutions to demonstrate the differences of the birth clinic as a modern institution that uses discipline to socialize 'completely' the mystery of birth. It searches for the rationality of such a socialization as an interweaving of the discourses of medicine and of state, and of the effect that is achieved in the final account: the state control over the birth and raising of children. This is also a part of the answer to the question why modernity 'gives birth' to the birth clinic and why every birth is clinicized. This is underlain by the hidden contradiction in the 'essence' of the birth clinic as a hospital for people in good health.

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