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Patient citizens, immigrant mothers : Mexican women, public prenatal care, and the birth-weight paradox / Alyshia Gálvez.
LIBRA HQ1462 .G35 2011
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Gálvez, Alyshia.
- Series:
- Critical issues in health and medicine
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Women--Mexico--Social conditions.
- Women.
- Prenatal care.
- Women immigrants.
- Social conditions.
- Mexico.
- Women immigrants--United States--Social conditions.
- Prenatal care--United States.
- Childbirth--United States--Cross-cultural studies.
- Childbirth.
- United States.
- Genre:
- Cross-cultural studies.
- Physical Description:
- xi, 211 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, [2011]
- Contents:
- Introduction
- Immigrant aspirations and the decisions families make
- Allá en el pueblo : the changing landscape of reproductive care in rural Mexico
- Becoming patients : birth experiences in New York City
- Soy fuerte, yo puedo : critical perspectives on prenatal care
- Conclusion : prenatal care and the reception of immigrants why it's important to listen to Mexican immigrant women talk about their pregnancies.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780813551418
- 0813551412
- 9780813551425
- 0813551420
- OCLC:
- 698360629
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