La profession medicale face a l'avortement

The medical profession as regards abortion

• Auteur / Autrice : Florence Comte-Pajot
• Direction : François Steudler
• Type : Thèse de doctorat
• Discipline(s) : Sociologie
• Date : Soutenance en 1989
• Etablissement(s) : Université Marc Bloch (Strasbourg) (1971-2008)

Mots clés

Mots clés contrôlés

Déontologie

Avortement

Sociologie

Personnel médical

Résumé

Apres un historique des rapports entre les medecins et l'avortement permettant de mieux comprendre les raisons du changement social de 1975 (loi veil sur l'i. V. G), il est fait une etude detaillee des differentes attitudes des medecins face a la legalisation de l'avortement. Le pouvoir medical a ete violemment attaque par les mouvements sociaux favorables a l'i. V. G. A travers la methode karman qui permet la pratique de l'avortement par des non-medecins. L'analyse des resistances du corps medical, en particulier hospitalier,a montre que celui-ci s'est retrouve pris au piege d'une loi autorisant l'i. V. G. Sans l'obliger pour autant a une pratique. Si la clause de conscience semblait devoir favoriser une opposition a la loi, les medecins ont eu rapidement a affronter diverses pressions. Cette these s'est interessee egalement a la facon dont ils s'y sont pris pour resoudre ces difficultes, s'arranger d'une loi encombrante de prime abord et meme en tirer encore plus de pouvoir en neutralisant ce qui pouvait apparaitre au depart comme un danger (pratique non medicale ou par des non-hospitaliers). La conclusion essaye d'analyser l'avenir de la pratique abortive en france.

After a historical report on the relationships between medical doctors and abortion allowing a better understanding of the reasons for social changes in 1975 (law veil on abortion), a detailed study of the various attitudes of doctors as regards the legislation of abortion is made. The medical institution has been violently criticized by the social movements in favour of abortion through the karman method which allows the practice of abortion by people who don't belong to the medical profession. Analysing the resistance among the medical profession particularly among hospital doctors has demonstrated that they have found themselves trapped by a law which has legalised abortion without forcing them to practise it. While the conscience clause seemed to encourage opposition to the law, doctors soon had to face various pressures. This thesis has also been interested in the way they have tackled the difficulties in order to solve them and to come to terms with a law which was cumbersome at first sight and how they even managed to get more power out of it by neutralizing what could appear at the beginning as a danger (non medical practice carried out by people who were not hospital doctors) in the conclusion we will try to analyse the future of the abortive practice in france.