{"product_id":"midwives-and-mothers-the-medicalization-of-childbirth-on-a-guatemalan-plantation-hardback-9781477311387","title":"Midwives and Mothers; The Medicalization of Childbirth on a Guatemalan Plantation (Hardback) 9781477311387","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eMidwives and Mothers\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eThe Medicalization of Childbirth on a Guatemalan Plantation\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eSheila Cosminsky (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781477311387, University of Texas Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 6 December 2016\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e318 pages\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 2.5 cm, 0.454 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe 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, \u003ci\u003eMidwives and Mothers\u003c\/i\u003e explores birth, illness, death, and survival on a Guatemalan sugar and coffee plantation, or \u003ci\u003efinca\u003c\/i\u003e, through the lives of two local midwives, DoÑa Maria and her daughter DoÑa Siriaca, and the women they have served over a forty-year period.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBy 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAcknowledgments\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 1. Midwives, Knowledge, and Power at Birth\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 2. MarÍ\u003cbr\u003ea’\u003cbr\u003es World: The Plantation\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 3. The Role of the Midwife: MarÍ\u003cbr\u003ea and Siriaca\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 4. Hands and Intuition: The Midwife’\u003cbr\u003es Prenatal Care\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 5. Soften the Pain: Management of Labor and Delivery\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 6. Looking after Mother and Infant: Postpartum Care\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 7. To Heal and to Hold: Midwife as Healer and Doctor to the Family\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 8. Career or Calling: National Health Policies and Midwifery Training Programs\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 9. Medicalization through the Lens of Childbirth\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAppendix I. Medicinal Plants and Remedies Mentioned by Midwives\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAppendix II. Common and Scientific Names of Medicinal Plants\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eNotes\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBibliography\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"University of Texas Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52589118456088,"sku":"9781477311387","price":67.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/midwives-and-mothers-the-medicalization-of-childbirth-on-a-guatemalan-plantation-hardback-9781477311387","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}