Unsafe Motherhood : : Mayan Maternal Mortality and Subjectivity in Post-War Guatemala / / Nicole S. Berry.
“[S]heds light not only on the obstacles to making motherhood safer, but to improving the health of poor populations in general.”—Social Anthropology Since 1987, when the global community first recognized the high frequency of women in developing countries dying from pregnancy-related causes, little...
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| Place / Publishing House: | New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2010] ©2010 |
| Year of Publication: | 2010 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Fertility, Reproduction and Sexuality: Social and Cultural Perspectives ;
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (260 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- List of Figures
- Acknowledgments
- Prologue. The Story of Rosario
- Introduction. The Specter of Death
- Chapter 1. Life, Birth, and Death in the Village
- Chapter 2. Coming to the ER: Analysis of an Interaction
- Chapter 3. Global Safe Motherhood and Making Local Pregnancy Safer: The Spin and What It Covers Up
- Chapter 4. The Indio Bruto and Modern Guatemalan Healthcare
- Chapter 5. Everyday Violence: From a Kaqchikel Village to the Nation and Back
- Chapter 6. Praying for a Good Outcome: Staying at Home during Obstetric Problems
- Conclusion. Putting the “Maternal” Back in Maternal Mortality
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Subject Index
- Index to Ethnographic Vignettes