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Delivering health : midwifery and development in Mexico /

"This book, based on seventeen months of ethnographic research on midwifery education in Mexico, illustrates the ways that midwives work both with and against the state as they confront poor maternal conditions that represent a legacy of inequality and violence"--

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Dixon, Lydia Zacher, 1980- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Nashville, Tennesse : Vanderbilt University Press, [2020]
Colección:Policy to practice (Nashville, Tenn.)
Temas:
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Acknowledgments
  • Prologue
  • Introduction
  • Chapter 1. Midwifery in Mexico and beyond
  • Chapter 2. Breaking out of the "uterus box"
  • Chapter 3. Maternal conditions
  • Chapter 4. Obstetrics in a time of violence
  • Chapter 5. Modern tradition
  • Conclusion: Creating demand and demanding change
  • Notes
  • References
  • Index.