Patient Citizens, Immigrant Mothers Mexican Women, Public Prenatal Care, and the Birth Weight Paradox

Name: Patient Citizens, Immigrant Mothers Mexican Women, Public Prenatal Care, and the Birth Weight Paradox
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ISBN: 9780813551425

ISBN-10: 0813551420

ISBN-13: 9780813551425

Edition: 2011

Authors: Alyshia Galvez

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According to the Latina health paradox, Mexican immigrant women have less complicated pregnancies and more favorable birth outcomes than many other groups, in spite of socioeconomic disadvantage. Alyshia Gálvez provides an ethnographic examination of this paradox. What are the ways that Mexican immigrant women care for themselves during their pregnancies? How do they decide to leave behind some of the practices they bring with them on their pathways of migration in favor of biomedical approaches to pregnancy and childbirth? This book takes us from inside the halls of a busy metropolitan hospital's public prenatal clinic to the Oaxaca and Puebla states in Mexico to look at the ways Mexican…

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List price: $38.95
Copyright year: 2011
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Publication date: 9/9/2011
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 230
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.70" tall
Weight: 0.924
Language: English

Alyshia Gálvez is assistant professor of Latin American and Puerto Rican studies at Lehman College, City University of New York. She is editor of Performing Religion in the Americas and Traveling Virgins/Virgenes Viajeras, a special issue of the journal e-misférica.



Acknowledgments



Paradoxes and Patients: Immigrants and Prenatal Care



Immigrant Aspirations and the Decisions Families Make



Remembering Reproductive Care in Rural Mexico



Becoming Patients: Birth Experiences in New York City



Critical Perspectives on Prenatal Care



Prenatal Care and the Reception of Immigrants: Reflections and Suggestions for Change


Epilogue


Notes


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Index