Childbirth, maternity, and medical pluralism in French colonial Vietnam, 1880-1945 /

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"Explores the complex interactions between French medicine and Vietnamese childbirth traditions, documenting the emergence of a plural system of maternity services that incorporated both biomedical knowledge and local birthing traditions"--

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Nguyen, Thuy Linh (Historian) (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Rochester, NY : University of Rochester Press, 2016.
Series:Rochester studies in medical history.
Subjects:
Childbirth > Vietnam > History.
Birth customs > Vietnam > History.
Obstetrics > Vietnam > History.
Midwifery > Vietnam > History.
Maternal health services > Vietnam > History.
Infant health services > Vietnam > History.
Medicalization > Vietnam > History.
Integrative medicine > Vietnam > History.
Parturition
Naissance > Rites et coutumes > Viêt-nam > Histoire.
Obstétrique > Viêt-nam > Histoire.
Sages-femmes > Viêt-nam > Histoire.
Médecine intégrative > Viêt-nam > Histoire.
Médicalisation > Viêt-nam > Histoire.
MEDICAL > Gynecology & Obstetrics.
MEDICAL > History.
Birth customs
Childbirth
Infant health services
Integrative medicine
Maternal health services
Medicalization
Midwifery
Obstetrics
Medecine integrative > Vietnam > Histoire.
Sages-femmes > Vietnam > Histoire.
Obstetrique > Vietnam > Histoire.
Vietnam
History
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • The first encounters
  • Maternity hospitals
  • Colonial midwives
  • The bà mụ and childbirth pluralism
  • Scientific motherhood and the teaching of maternity
  • The Depression era and the discovery of the child.

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