{"product_id":"midwives-and-mothers-9781477311387","title":"Midwives and Mothers","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCovering 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAcknowledgments\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 1. Midwives, Knowledge, and Power at Birth\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 2. María’s World: The Plantation\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 3. The Role of the Midwife: María and Siriaca\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 4. Hands and Intuition: The Midwife’s Prenatal Care\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 5. Soften the Pain: Management of Labor and Delivery\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 6. Looking after Mother and Infant: Postpartum Care\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 7. To Heal and to Hold: Midwife as Healer and Doctor to the Family\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 8. Career or Calling: National Health Policies and Midwifery Training Programs\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 9. Medicalization through the Lens of Childbirth\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAppendix I. Medicinal Plants and Remedies Mentioned by Midwives\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAppendix II. Common and Scientific Names of Medicinal Plants\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eNotes\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBibliography\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"University of Texas Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49408947913047,"sku":"9781477311387","price":59.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781477311387.jpg?v=1730504815","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/midwives-and-mothers-9781477311387","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}