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Changing Birth in the Andes : Culture, Policy, and Safe Motherhood in Peru.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Nashville : Vanderbilt University Press, 2019Copyright date: ©2019Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (291 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780826522382
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Changing Birth in the AndesDDC classification:
  • 362.198200985
LOC classification:
  • RG963.P4 .G847 2019
Online resources:
Contents:
Cover -- Title Page -- Table of Contents -- List of Figures -- Acknowledgments -- Glossary of Commonly Used Acronyms -- Introduction -- 1. The Making of the Intercultural Birthing Policy in Peru -- 2. Higher Up and Farther Away: Implementing Intercultural Birth in Cusco and Cajamarca -- 3. Constructing Interculturality, Civilizing Birth -- 4. Strategizing for a Good Birth: Women, Men, and Traditional Lay Midwives -- 5. "The Doctor Does Get Respect": Clinic Midwives' Experiences of Intercultural Birthing -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Index.
Summary: The challenges of culturally respectful birth for indigenous women in Latin America.
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Cover -- Title Page -- Table of Contents -- List of Figures -- Acknowledgments -- Glossary of Commonly Used Acronyms -- Introduction -- 1. The Making of the Intercultural Birthing Policy in Peru -- 2. Higher Up and Farther Away: Implementing Intercultural Birth in Cusco and Cajamarca -- 3. Constructing Interculturality, Civilizing Birth -- 4. Strategizing for a Good Birth: Women, Men, and Traditional Lay Midwives -- 5. "The Doctor Does Get Respect": Clinic Midwives' Experiences of Intercultural Birthing -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Index.

The challenges of culturally respectful birth for indigenous women in Latin America.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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