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Informationen zum Autor SHEILA COSMINSKY is professor emerita of anthropology in the Department of Sociology, Anthropology, and Criminal Justice at Rutgers University—Camden. She is the coauthor, with Ira Harrison, of a two-volume bibliography, Traditional Medicine, and has published numerous articles on ethnomedicine, midwifery, and maternal and child health and nutrition. Klappentext Covering a forty-year period, this comparative and longitudinal study traces the medicalization of birth in Guatemala and its effects on women¿s lives and their economic and social status. Zusammenfassung Covering a forty-year period, this comparative and longitudinal study traces the medicalization of birth in Guatemala and its effects on women’s lives and their economic and social status. Inhaltsverzeichnis AcknowledgmentsChapter 1. Midwives, Knowledge, and Power at BirthChapter 2. María’s World: The PlantationChapter 3. The Role of the Midwife: María and SiriacaChapter 4. Hands and Intuition: The Midwife’s Prenatal CareChapter 5. Soften the Pain: Management of Labor and DeliveryChapter 6. Looking after Mother and Infant: Postpartum CareChapter 7. To Heal and to Hold: Midwife as Healer and Doctor to the FamilyChapter 8. Career or Calling: National Health Policies and Midwifery Training ProgramsChapter 9. Medicalization through the Lens of ChildbirthAppendix I. Medicinal Plants and Remedies Mentioned by MidwivesAppendix II. Common and Scientific Names of Medicinal PlantsNotesBibliography
