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Book Synopsis
Covering a forty-year period, this comparative and longitudinal study traces the medicalization of birth in Guatemala and its effects on women’s lives and their economic and social status.

Table of Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Chapter 1. Midwives, Knowledge, and Power at Birth
  • Chapter 2. María’s World: The Plantation
  • Chapter 3. The Role of the Midwife: María and Siriaca
  • Chapter 4. Hands and Intuition: The Midwife’s Prenatal Care
  • Chapter 5. Soften the Pain: Management of Labor and Delivery
  • Chapter 6. Looking after Mother and Infant: Postpartum Care
  • Chapter 7. To Heal and to Hold: Midwife as Healer and Doctor to the Family
  • Chapter 8. Career or Calling: National Health Policies and Midwifery Training Programs
  • Chapter 9. Medicalization through the Lens of Childbirth
  • Appendix I. Medicinal Plants and Remedies Mentioned by Midwives
  • Appendix II. Common and Scientific Names of Medicinal Plants
  • Notes
  • Bibliography

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      Publisher: University of Texas Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 06/12/2016
      ISBN13: 9781477311387, 978-1477311387
      ISBN10: 1477311386

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Covering a forty-year period, this comparative and longitudinal study traces the medicalization of birth in Guatemala and its effects on women’s lives and their economic and social status.

      Table of Contents
      • Acknowledgments
      • Chapter 1. Midwives, Knowledge, and Power at Birth
      • Chapter 2. María’s World: The Plantation
      • Chapter 3. The Role of the Midwife: María and Siriaca
      • Chapter 4. Hands and Intuition: The Midwife’s Prenatal Care
      • Chapter 5. Soften the Pain: Management of Labor and Delivery
      • Chapter 6. Looking after Mother and Infant: Postpartum Care
      • Chapter 7. To Heal and to Hold: Midwife as Healer and Doctor to the Family
      • Chapter 8. Career or Calling: National Health Policies and Midwifery Training Programs
      • Chapter 9. Medicalization through the Lens of Childbirth
      • Appendix I. Medicinal Plants and Remedies Mentioned by Midwives
      • Appendix II. Common and Scientific Names of Medicinal Plants
      • Notes
      • Bibliography

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