Patient Citizens, Immigrant Mothers : : Mexican Women, Public Prenatal Care, and the Birth Weight Paradox / / Alyshia Galvez.
According to the Latina health paradox, Mexican immigrant women have less complicated pregnancies and more favorable birth outcomes than many other groups, in spite of socioeconomic disadvantage. Alyshia Gálvez provides an ethnographic examination of this paradox. What are the ways that Mexican immi...
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Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Rutgers University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2013 |
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Place / Publishing House: | New Brunswick, NJ : : Rutgers University Press, , [2011] ©2011 |
Year of Publication: | 2011 |
Language: | English |
Series: | Critical Issues in Health and Medicine
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (230 p.) :; 5 photographs |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Chapter 1. Paradoxes and Patients: Immigrants and Prenatal Care
- Chapter 2. Immigrant Aspirations and the Decisions Families Make
- Chapter 3. Remembering Reproductive Care in Rural Mexico
- Chapter 4. Becoming Patients: Birth Experiences in New York City
- Chapter 5. Critical Perspectives on Prenatal Care
- Chapter 6. Prenatal Care and the Reception of Immigrants: Reflections and Suggestions for Change
- Epilogue
- Notes
- References
- Index