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Midwives and mothers the medicalization of childbirth on a Guatemalan plantation
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Title
Midwives and mothers [electronic resource] : the medicalization of childbirth on a Guatemalan plantation / Sheila Cosminsky.
ISBN
9781477311400
1477311408
9781477311387 (cloth : alk. paper)
9781477311394 (pbk. : alk. paper)
1477311386
Edition
First edition.
Published
Austin : University of Texas Press, 2016. (Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2015)
Physical Description
1 online resource (pages cm)
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Project MUSE – UPCC 2017 Complete.
UPCC book collections on Project MUSE.
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
January 20, 2017
Series
Louann Atkins Temple women & culture series ; book forty-three
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
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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