Midwives and Mothers : The Medicalization of Childbirth on a Guatemalan Plantation /

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Détails bibliographiques
Auteur principal: Cosminsky, Sheila (Auteur)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Austin : University of Texas Press, 2016.
Édition:First edition.
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Sujets:
Traditional medicine
Maternal health services > Social aspects
Childbirth > Social aspects
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
MEDICAL > Gynecology & Obstetrics.
Sages-femmes > Guatemala > Conditions sociales.
Maternal Health Services
Rural development > Health aspects > Guatemala.
Plantation life > Health aspects > Guatemala.
Maternal health services > Social aspects > Guatemala.
Childbirth > Social aspects > Guatemala.
Traditional medicine > Guatemala.
Midwives > Guatemala > Social conditions.
Guatemala
Electronic books.
Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • Midwives, knowledge, and power at birth
  • María's world : the plantation
  • The role of the midwife : María and Siriaca
  • Hands and intuition : the midwife's prenatal care
  • Soften the pain : management of labor and delivery
  • Looking after mother and infant : postpartum care
  • To heal and to hold : midwife as healer and doctor to the family
  • Career or calling : national health policies and midwifery training programs
  • Medicalization through the lens of childbirth
  • Appendix I. Medicinal plants and remedies mentioned by midwives
  • Appendix II. common and scientific names of medicinal plants.

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