Changing birth in the Andes : culture, policy and safe motherhood in Peru /

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The challenges of culturally respectful birth for Indigenous women in Latin America.

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Guerra-Reyes, Lucia, 1974- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Nashville, Tennessee : Vanderbilt University Press, [2019]
Subjects:
Maternal health services > Peru.
Mothers > Mortality > Peru.
Maternal health services > Peru > Organization.
Maternal health services > Peru > Administration.
Culture.
Medical policy.
Maternal Health Services > organization & administration
Parturition
Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice
Culture
Health Policy
Mères > Mortalité > Pérou.
Politique sanitaire.
culture note.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > World > Caribbean & Latin American.
Maternal health services.
Maternal health services > Administration.
Mothers > Mortality.
Peru
Peru.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • The making of the intercultural birthing policy in Peru
  • Higher up and farther away : implementing intercultural birth in Cusco and Cajamarca
  • Constructing interculturality, civilizing birth
  • Strategizing for a good birth : women, men, and traditional lay midwives
  • The doctor does get respect : clinic midwives' experiences of intercultural birthing.

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