Midwives and mothers : the medicalization of childbirth on a Guatemalan plantation

Midwives and mothers : the medicalization of childbirth on a Guatemalan plantation /

"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 Guatema...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Cosminsky, Sheila (Author)
Format: Government Document Book
Language:English
Published: Austin : University of Texas Press, 2016.
Edition:First edition.
Series:Louann Atkins Temple women & culture series ; bk. 43.
Subjects:
Midwives > Guatemala > Social conditions.
Traditional medicine > Guatemala.
Childbirth > Social aspects > Guatemala.
Maternal health services > Social aspects > Guatemala.
Plantation life > Health aspects > Guatemala.
Rural development > Health aspects > Guatemala.
Maternal Health Services.
Medicalization.
Midwifery.
Medicine, Traditional.
Geburt
Hebamme
Lokales Wissen
Verdrängung.
Medikalisierung
Guatemala.
Retalhuleu
Table of Contents:
  • Midwives, knowledge, and power at birth
  • María's world : the plantation
  • The role of the midwife : María and Siriaca
  • Hands and intuition : the midwife's prenatal care
  • Soften the pain : management of labor and delivery
  • Looking after mother and infant : postpartum care
  • To heal and to hold : midwife as healer and doctor to the family
  • Career or calling : national health policies and midwifery training programs
  • Medicalization through the lens of childbirth
  • Appendix I. Medicinal plants and remedies mentioned by midwives
  • Appendix II. common and scientific names of medicinal plants.

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