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Designed to encourage critical thinking about history, the Major Problems in American History series introduces students to both primary sources and analytical essays on important topics in US history. This collection is designed for courses on Latina/o history.
List of contents
1. Maternity Nursing in the Contemporary Health Care System. 2. Theoretical Perspectives on the Childbearing Family. 3. Complementary and Alternative Therapy. 4. Ethics, Laws, and Standards of Care. 5. Promoting Women's' Health. 6. Health Care Issues and Common Concerns. 7. Reproduction, Fertility, Infertility, and Family Planning. 8. Genetics and Genetic Counseling. 9. Normal Pregnancy. 10. Nursing Care of the Pregnant Woman. 11. Management and Nursing Care of High-Risk Clients. 12. Fetal Development. 13. Fetal Assessment. 14. Processes of Labor. 15. Nursing Care of the Intrapartal Family. 16. High-Risk Births and Obstetrical Emergencies. 17. Pain Management During Labor and Delivery. 18. Nursing Care of the Postpartum Family. 19. Complications of Postpartum and Neonatal Loss. 20. Lactation and Newborn Nutrition. 21. Transition to Extrauterine Life. 22. Care of the Normal Newborn. 23. Care of Newborns at Risk Due to Low Birthweight and Prematurity. 24. Care of the Newborn with Chronic and Acquired Conditions.
About the author
Omar Valerio-Jimenez is Associate Professor of History at the University of Iowa, where he teaches courses on Latinas/os, immigration, borderlands, and the American West. He received his S.B. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and his M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of California, Los Angeles. His first book, River of Hope: Forging Identity and Nation in the Rio Grande Borderlands (Duke University Press, 2013), explores state formation and cultural change along the Mexico-United States border during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. He has won fellowships from the Clements Center for Southwest Studies at Southern Methodist University, the Center for U.S.-Mexican Studies at the University of California, San Diego, the Western History Association, and the Newberry Library. His next project is a transnational study of the U.S.-Mexican War that examines memory, identity, and civil rights.
