Delivering health : midwifery and development in Mexico / Lydia Z. Dixon.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dixon, Lydia Zacher, 1980- author.

Series:

Policy to Practice

Policy to practice

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Midwifery--Mexico.

Midwifery.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1 online resource)

Place of Publication:

Nashville, Tennesse : Vanderbilt University Press, [2020]

Summary:

"This book, based on seventeen months of ethnographic research on midwifery education in Mexico, illustrates the ways that midwives work both with and against the state as they confront poor maternal conditions that represent a legacy of inequality and violence"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Chapter 1: Midwifery in Mexico and Beyond

Chapter 2: Breaking out of the "Uterus Box"

Chapter 3: Maternal Conditions

Chapter 4: Obstetrics in a Time of Violence

Chapter 5: Modern Tradition

Conclusion: Creating Demand and Demanding Change.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-8265-0115-X

0-8265-0113-3

OCLC:

1151502336