Midwives and Mothers - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Midwives and Mothers write by Sheila Cosminsky. This book was released on 2016-12-06. Midwives and Mothers available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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 Guatemalan sugar and coffee plantation, or finca, through the lives of two local midwives, Do�a Maria and her daughter Do�a Siriaca, and the women they have served over a forty-year period. By comparing the practices and beliefs of the mother and daughter, Sheila Cosminsky shows the dynamics of the medicalization process and the contestation between the midwives and biomedical personnel, as the latter try to impose their system as the authoritative one. She discusses how the midwives syncretize, integrate, or reject elements from Mayan, Spanish, and biomedical systems. The midwives' story becomes a lens for understanding the impact of medicalization on people's lives and the ways in which women's bodies have become contested terrain between traditional and contemporary medical practices. Cosminsky also makes recommendations for how ethno-obstetric and biomedical systems may be accommodated, articulated, or integrated. Finally, she places the changes in the birthing system in the larger context of changes in the plantation system, including the elimination of coffee growing, which has made women, traditionally the primary harvesters of coffee beans, more economically dependent on men.
Birth Settings in America
Birth Settings in America - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Birth Settings in America write by National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. This book was released on 2020-05-01. Birth Settings in America available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The delivery of high quality and equitable care for both mothers and newborns is complex and requires efforts across many sectors. The United States spends more on childbirth than any other country in the world, yet outcomes are worse than other high-resource countries, and even worse for Black and Native American women. There are a variety of factors that influence childbirth, including social determinants such as income, educational levels, access to care, financing, transportation, structural racism and geographic variability in birth settings. It is important to reevaluate the United States' approach to maternal and newborn care through the lens of these factors across multiple disciplines. Birth Settings in America: Outcomes, Quality, Access, and Choice reviews and evaluates maternal and newborn care in the United States, the epidemiology of social and clinical risks in pregnancy and childbirth, birth settings research, and access to and choice of birth settings.
A Book for Midwives
A Book for Midwives - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A Book for Midwives write by Susan Klein. This book was released on 2007. A Book for Midwives available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Mourner, Mother, Midwife
Mourner, Mother, Midwife - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Mourner, Mother, Midwife write by L. Juliana M. Claassens. This book was released on 2012-01-01. Mourner, Mother, Midwife available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Juliana Claassens explores alternative Old Testament metaphors that portray God as mourner, mother, and midwife--images that resist the violence and bloodshed associated with the dominant warrior imagery
Pushing for Midwives
Pushing for Midwives - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Pushing for Midwives write by Christa Craven. This book was released on 2010-10-22. Pushing for Midwives available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. With the increasing demand for midwives, activists are lobbying to loosen restrictions that deny legal access to homebirth options. In Pushing for Midwives, Christa Craven presents a nuanced history of women’s reproductive rights activism in the U.S. She also provides an examination of contemporary organizing strategies for reproductive rights in an era increasingly driven by “consumer rights.” An historical and ethnographic case study of grassroots organizing, Pushing for Midwives is an in-depth look at the strategies, successes, and challenges facing midwifery activists in Virginia. Craven examines how decades-old race and class prejudices against midwives continue to impact opposition to—as well as divisions within—women’s contemporary legislative efforts for midwives. By placing the midwifery struggle within a broader reproductive rights context, Pushing for Midwives encourages activists to reconsider how certain political strategies have the potential to divide women. This reflection is crucial in the wake of neoliberal political-economic shifts that have prioritized the rights of consumers over those of citizens—particularly if activists hope to maintain their commitment to expanding reproductive rights for all women.
