escritos | Michelle Sadler

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Michelle Sadler

medical anthropologist

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writings

All my publications in chronological order are available on ResearchGate and Academia.edu

Here I share a selection, organized by theme.

sexualities, sexual and reproductive health

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childbirth, obstetric violence, maternity

masculinities and health

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mis favoritos

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childbirth, obstetric violence, maternity

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Sadler, M. & Cohen-Shabot, S. (2025). Weaving birth: interdependence and the fungal turn . Front. Glob. Women's Health 6:1642537.

Sadler, Michelle. (2025). Obstetric Violence, a Latin American Concept. In, Barbara Katz Rothman, Elizabeth Newnham, Rodante van der Waal, Christie Sillo (eds.), The Routledge Companion to Gender and Reproduction. Routledge , 141-163.

Sadler, M. (2024). What lies hidden in the logic of choice in institutional childbirth care in Chile . In, Sesia P., Berrio L., Muñoz R. (eds.), Sexual and reproductive health and structural vulnerability in Latin America . Buenos Aires: Institute of Collective Health, ISCo Notebooks Collection, 95-111.

Sadler, M. & Cohen-Shabot, S. (2025). Weaving birth: interdependence and the fungal turn . Front. Glob. Women's Health 6:1642537.

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Brigidi, S., Battisti, A., Skoko, E., Santos, C., Morais, L., Sadler, M., Candia, M., et al. (2024). Joint response from Latin American, European Obstetric Violence Observatories and other organizations all over Europe to the Joint Position Statement on Substandard and Disrespectful Care in Labor - Because Words Matter . European Journal Of Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Reproductive Biology , 299, 329–330.

Sadler, M. and Leiva, G. (2023). “Physiologic birth implies economic damage”: Financial incentives for the performance of cesareans in Chile . In A. Premkumar & R. Davis-Floyd (Eds.), Cognition, Risk, and Responsibility in Obstetrics: Anthropological Analyzes and Critiques of Obstetricians' Practices . New York: Berghahn Books, 101-124.

Sadler, M. and Leiva, G. (2023). More cesarean sections than ever in Chile . Opinion column, CIPER Chile.

Cohen Shabot, S., and Sadler, M. (2023). “My Soul Hurt, and I Felt as If I Was Going to Die”: Obstetric Violence as Torture . Hypatia 38 (3), 607-627.

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Sadler, M. (2022). Nombrando la episiotomía de rutina por lo que es: mutilación genital femenina. Aportes conceptuales desde experiencias de parto en Chile. Religación Revista de Ciencias Sociales y Humanidades, 7(34).

Sadler, M. (2021). Biomedical technocracy dressed as humanism. Institutional childbirth care in contemporary Chile . Doctoral thesis. Tarragona, Spain: Universitat Rovira i Virgili.

Asefa, A., Semaan, A., Delvaux, T., Huysmans, E., Galle, A., Sacks, E., Bohren, M.A., Morgan, A., Sadler, M., Vedam, S., and Benova, L. (2021). The impact of COVID-19 on the provision of respectful maternity care: Findings from a global survey of health workers. Women & Birth, 35 (4), 378-386.

Sadler, M., Vezzani, F., Watkins, L., Navarrete, J., & López, A. (2021). Care in childbirth: from individual to collective responsibility . Revista Chilena de Antropología 43 , 233-246.

Leiva, G., Sadler, M., López, C., Quezada, S., Flores, V., Sierra, C., Díaz, S. and Figueroa, C. (2021). Protecting Women's and Newborns' Rights in a Public Maternity Unit During the COVID-19 Outbreak: The Case of Dra. Eloísa Díaz - La Florida Hospital in Santiago, Chile . Frontiers in Sociology 6 , 1-13.

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Sadler, M., Leiva, G., Olza, I. (2020). COVID-19 as a risk factor for obstetric violence . Sexual and Reproductive Health Matters 28 (1).

Sadler, M. (2020). Awakening the metaphors that were sleeping in science (Prologue) . In P. Quattrocchi and N. Magnone (eds.), Obstetric Violence in Latin America: conceptualization, experiences, measurement and strategies . Buenos Aires: UNLA, VII-XXI.

Stoll, K., Downe, S., Edmonds, J., Gross, M., Malott, A., McAra-Couper, J., Sadler, M., Thomson, G. (2020). A survey of university students' preferences for midwifery care and community birth options in eight high-income countries . Journal of Midwifery & Women's Health 65 (1), 131-141.

Stoll, K., Edmonds, J., Sadler, M., Thomson, G., McAra-Couper, J., Swift, EM, Malott, A., Streffing, J., Downe, S., ICAPP Study Team. (2019). A cross-country survey of attitudes toward childbirth technologies and interventions among university students . Women & Birth 32 (3), 231-239.

Weeks, F., Sadler, M., Stoll, K. (2020). Preference for Caesarean and attitudes toward birth in a sample of Chilean young adults . Women & Birth 33 (2), e159-e165.

Sadler, M., Carreño, A. (2020). Distressed Caregivers or Criminals? Stories of Precarity and Perceived Maternal Neglect in Chile . In B. Martin and M. Parr (eds.), Writing Mothers: Narrative Acts of Care, Redemption, and Transformation . Demeter Press, 127-138.

Chilean Observatory of Obstetric Violence [Sadler, M., Leiva, G., Bussenius, P., León, T. and Valdebenito, J.] (2018). Results of the First Survey on Birth in Chile . Santiago, Chile: 2018.

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Sadler, M. (2018). The effects of cesarean section on child health: an urgent matter . Revista Chilena de Pediatría 89 (4), 561-562.

Sadler, M., Leiva, G., Perello, A., Schorr, J. (2018). Preference for delivery method and reasons for cesarean section in women from the Metropolitan Region of Chile . Journal of the Public Health Institute of Chile 2 (1), 24-29.

Weeks, F., Sadler, M., Stoll, K. (2020). Preference for Caesarean and attitudes toward birth in a sample of Chilean young adults . Women & Birth 33 (2), e159-e165.

Sadler, M. and Díaz, S. (2017). The Illustrated History of a Pregnancy . Santiago, Chile: Catalonia. 150 pages.

Sadler, M. (2018). Bodies experienced at birth: from the body dead with fear to the joyful body . In M. Cordero Fernández, P. Moscoso-Flores and A.Viu (eds.), Traces and Gestures of Emotions; Disciplinary Overflows . Santiago, Chile: Cuarto Propio, 199-125.

Sadler, M. (2016). Ethnographies of Birth Control in Contemporary Chile . Chilean Journal of Anthropology 33 , 45-57.

Sadler, M., Santos, M., Ruiz-Berdún, D., Leiva Rojas, G., Skoko, E., Gillen, P. and Clausen, J. (2016). Moving beyond disrespect and abuse: addressing the structural dimensions of obstetric violence . Reproductive Health Matters 24 (47):47-55.

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Sadler, M. and Leiva, G. (2016). Being born in 21st Century Chile: the health system as a critical social determinant in birth care . In B. Cabieses et al. (eds.), Social vulnerability and its effect on health in Chile . Faculty of Medicine, Universidad del Desarrollo, 61-77.

Sadler, M. and Leiva, G. (2015). “Cesarean sections in Chile” , Opinion Column Series, CIPER Chile.

13.03.2015. Cesarean sections in Chile (I): Is it true that Chilean women prefer cesarean section to vaginal delivery?
17/04/2015. Cesarean sections in Chile (II): “The one who decides the method of delivery is the man, not the woman.”
15/05/2015. Cesarean sections in Chile III: The construction of the fear of childbirth .
19/06/2015. Cesarean sections in Chile IV: Malona pelvis .
27/07/2015. Cesarean sections in Chile V: The business of birth .

Sadler, M. (2007). “Men also get emotional”. Towards the construction of present masculinities . Rev GPU (Gazette of University Psychiatry) 3 (3), 437-449.

Sadler, M. (2009). Guide for health care professionals “Re-Vision of Personalized Childbirth: tools and experiences in Chile” . Result of FONIS project SA06I20034, Opportunities and resistances to the implementation of personalized models of pregnancy-childbirth-birth care. Chile Crece Contigo, Government of Chile.

Sadler, M. and Rivera, M. (2015). The fear of childbirth: “I don’t imagine the ideal birth, I imagine the worst birth.” Revista Contenido, Cultura y Ciencias Sociales 6 , 61-72.

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Sadler, M. (2004). “This is how my daughter was born to me.” Anthropological contributions to the analysis of biomedical childbirth care . In M. Sadler, ME Acuña and A. Obach, Birth, Education, Healing; Perspectives from the Anthropology of Gender . Catalonia, 15-66.

Sadler, M. (2003). “This is how my daughter was born to me.” Anthropological contributions to the analysis of biomedical care in hospital childbirth . Thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Social Anthropologist. University of Chile.

Sadler, M. (2004). “Men also get emotional.” Gender and the birth setting . Master's thesis in Gender and Culture Studies, Social Sciences Major, University of Chile.

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sexualidades, salud sexual y reproductiva

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Obach, A., Sadler, M., Robledo, C., Wright, C. & Cabieses, B. (2025). Unmet Needs and New Challenges in Young Women's Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights: A Qualitative Study in Chile's Metropolitan Region . Sexual & Reproductive Health Matters 15:1-25.

Obach, A., Blukacz, A., Sadler, M. et al. (2024). Barriers and facilitators to access sexual and reproductive health services among young migrants in Tarapacá, Chile: a qualitative study . BMC Public Health 24 , 386.

Obach, A., Sadler, M., Roberts, A. & Marin, M. (2023). The role of new civil society organizations in the promotion of sexual health in Chile . Journal of Social Anthropology 32 (2), 169-184.

Obach, A., Sadler, M., Carreño, A. (Eds.) (2023). Bodies, sexualities and youth in a diverse Chile . Universidad del Desarrollo.

Obach, A., Carreño, A., Sadler, M. (2022). Latin American Youths' Migration Journeys and Settlement in the Tarapacá Region in Chile: Implications for Sexual and Reproductive Health . International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 19 (20),13583.

Obach, A., Sadler, M., Cabieses, B., Bussenius, P. et al. (2022). Strengths and challenges of a school-based sexual and reproductive health program for adolescents in Chile . PLoS ONE 17 (3), e0265309.

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Rodríguez Vignoli, J., Roberts Pozo, A., Sadler, M. (2021). Achievements, pending issues and challenges regarding the decline in adolescent fertility in Chile . In, INJUV, Problems and challenges of youth in Chile . Santiago: INJUV, 122-157.

Undurraga, V., Sadler, M. (2019). The misrepresentation of conscientious objection as a new strategy of resistance to abortion decriminalization . Sexual and Reproductive Health Matters 27 (2), 1-3.

Obach, A., Sadler, M. (2019) ¿Niñas o adultas? La invisibilización de las adolescentes en el proceso de atención de salud de gestación y parto. Cuad Méd Soc (Chile) 59 (3-4), 77-80.

Sadler, M., Obach, A., Luengo, X. and Biggs, A. (2011). Barriers to Access to Health Services for the Prevention of Adolescent Pregnancy in Chile . Santiago: CulturaSalud / National Program of Comprehensive Health of Adolescents and Youth, Ministry of Health.

Obach, A., Sadler, M., Jofré, N. (2017). Sexual and reproductive health of adolescents in Chile: the role of sex education . Rev. Salud Pública (Colombia) 19 (6), 852-858.

Obach, A., Sadler, M., Cabieses, B. (2019). Intersectoral strategies between health and education for preventing adolescent pregnancy in Chile: Findings from a qualitative study . Health Expectations 22 (2), 183-192.

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masculinities and health

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Obach, A., Sadler, M., Aguayo, F., Bernales, M. (2018). Sexual and reproductive health of young men in Chile: results of a qualitative study . Pan American Journal of Public Health 42 , e124.

Barker, G., Greene, M., Nascimento, M., Segundo, M., Ricardo, C., Taylor, A., Aguayo, F., Sadler, M., et al. (2012). Men Who Care: A Multi-Country Qualitative Study of Men in Non-Traditional Caregiving Roles . Washington: ICRW & Promundo Institute.

Obach, A., Sadler, M. and Aguayo, F. (2011). Involving Young Men in Ending Gender Violence. Multi-country Intervention with Impact Evaluation . Chilean Case. Santiago, Chile: CulturaSalud/EME.

Aguayo, F. and Sadler, M. (eds). (2011). Masculinities and Public Policies. Involving Men in Gender Equality . Lom Ediciones.

Barker, G., Greene, M., Siegel, E., Nascimento, M., Segundo, M., Ricardo, C., Figueroa, JG, Redpath, J., Morrell, R., Jewkes, R., Peacock, D., Aguayo, F., Sadler, et al. (2010). What Men Have To Do With It. Public Policies to Promote Gender Equality . ICRW & Promundo.

Sadler, M. (2007). “Men also get emotional.” Towards the construction of present masculinities . Rev GPU (Gazette of University Psychiatry) 3 (3), 437-449.

Sadler, M. (2004). “Men also get emotional.” Gender and the birth setting . Master's thesis in Gender and Culture Studies, Social Sciences Major, University of Chile.

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