Midwives and Mothers : : The Medicalization of Childbirth on a Guatemalan Plantation / / Sheila Cosminsky.
The World Health Organization is currently promoting a policy of replacing traditional or lay midwives in countries around the world. As part of an effort to record the knowledge of local midwives before it is lost, Midwives and Mothers explores birth, illness, death, and survival on a Guatemalan su...
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Cosminsky, Sheila, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut Midwives and Mothers : The Medicalization of Childbirth on a Guatemalan Plantation / Sheila Cosminsky. Austin : University of Texas Press, [2021] ©2016 1 online resource text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Frontmatter -- 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 -- Index restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star The World Health Organization is currently promoting a policy of replacing traditional or lay midwives in countries around the world. As part of an effort to record the knowledge of local midwives before it is lost, Midwives and Mothers explores birth, illness, death, and survival on a Guatemalan sugar and coffee plantation, or finca, through the lives of two local midwives, Doña Maria and her daughter Doña Siriaca, and the women they have served over a forty-year period. By comparing the practices and beliefs of the mother and daughter, Sheila Cosminsky shows the dynamics of the medicalization process and the contestation between the midwives and biomedical personnel, as the latter try to impose their system as the authoritative one. She discusses how the midwives syncretize, integrate, or reject elements from Mayan, Spanish, and biomedical systems. The midwives’ story becomes a lens for understanding the impact of medicalization on people’s lives and the ways in which women’s bodies have become contested terrain between traditional and contemporary medical practices. Cosminsky also makes recommendations for how ethno-obstetric and biomedical systems may be accommodated, articulated, or integrated. Finally, she places the changes in the birthing system in the larger context of changes in the plantation system, including the elimination of coffee growing, which has made women, traditionally the primary harvesters of coffee beans, more economically dependent on men. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 27. Okt 2021) Childbirth Social aspects Guatemala. Maternal health services Social aspects Guatemala. Midwives Guatemala Social conditions. Plantation life Health aspects Guatemala. Rural development - Health aspects - Guatemala. Rural development Health aspects Guatemala. Traditional medicine Guatemala. SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social. bisacsh https://doi.org/10.7560/311387 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781477311400 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781477311400/original |
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Frontmatter -- 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 -- Index |
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Frontmatter -- 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 -- Index |
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