Delivering health : midwifery and development in Mexico /

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"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"--

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Dixon, Lydia Zacher, 1980- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Nashville, Tennesse : Vanderbilt University Press, [2020]
Series:Policy to practice (Nashville, Tenn.)
Subjects:
Midwifery > Mexico.
Midwives > Training of > Mexico.
Midwifery > Study and teaching > Mexico.
Sages-femmes > Mexique.
Sages-femmes > Formation > Mexique.
Sages-femmes > Étude et enseignement > Mexique.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Disease & Health Issues
Midwifery.
Midwifery > Study and teaching.
Midwives > Training of.
Mexico.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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