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
Main Author: Guerra-Reyes, Lucia, 1974- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Nashville, Tennessee : Vanderbilt University Press, [2019]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Mothers > Mortality.
Maternal health services > Administration.
Maternal health services.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > World > Caribbean & Latin American.
culture note.
Politique sanitaire.
Culture.
Meres > Mortalite > Perou.
Health Policy
Culture
Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice
Parturition
Maternal Health Services > organization & administration
Medical policy.
Maternal health services > Peru > Administration.
Maternal health services > Peru > Organization.
Mothers > Mortality > Peru.
Maternal health services > Peru.
Peru.
Peru
Electronic books.
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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