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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| Place / Publishing House: | Austin : : University of Texas Press, , [2021] ©2016 |
| Year of Publication: | 2021 |
| Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- 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