Unsafe Motherhood Mayan Maternal Mortality and Subjectivity in Post-War Guatemala

Name: Unsafe Motherhood Mayan Maternal Mortality and Subjectivity in Post-War Guatemala
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ISBN: 9780857457912

ISBN-10: 0857457918

ISBN-13: 9780857457912

Edition: 2012

Authors: Nicole S. Berry

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Since 1987, when the global community first recognized the high frequency of women in developing countries dying from pregnancy-related causes, little progress has been made to combat this problem. This study follows the global policies that have been implemented in Sololá, Guatemala in order to decrease high rates of maternal mortality among indigenous Mayan women. The author examines the diverse meanings and understandings of motherhood, pregnancy, birth and birth-related death among the biomedical personnel, village women, their families, and midwives. These incongruous perspectives, in conjunction with the implementation of such policies, threaten to disenfranchise clients from their…

Book details

List price: $23.95
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: Berghahn Books, Incorporated
Publication date: 12/1/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 260
Size: 6.03" wide x 9.00" long x 0.62" tall
Weight: 0.836
Language: English

Tracy Prowse is Assistant Professor in the Department of Anthropology at McMaster University. Her research explores diet and health in past populations using paleopathological and isotopic analyses of human bones and teeth. She has published on the paleodiet of Roman Italy in the American Journal of Physical Anthropology and the Journal of Archaeological Science .Nicole S. Berryis an Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Health Sciences at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, British Columbia.