Japanese American midwives
Subtitle: culture, community, and health politics, 1880-1950
By: Susan L. Smith.
Series: The Asian American experience
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Urbana
Language: eng
Number of pages: 280
ISBN-13: 9780252030055; 9780252072475
Subjects: Midwifery -- United States -- History.; Midwifery -- Japan -- History.; Midwives -- United States -- History.; Midwives -- Japan -- History.; Japanese American women -- History.; Japanese -- United States -- History.; Midwifery -- history -- United States.; Asian Americans -- history -- United States.; Health Policy -- history -- United States.; Race Relations -- history -- United States.; Japan -- Emigration and immigration -- History.
Description: In the late 19th century, midwifery was transformed into a new women's profession by modernizing Japan. As emigration to the U.S. increased, so Japanese midwives became involved as cultural brokers & participated in the creation of a Japanese American identity.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Creation of the sanba in Meiji Japan; title: Race relations, midwife regulations, and the sanba in the American west; title: Seattle sanba and the creation of Issei community; title: Midwife supervision in Hawai'i; title: Militarization, midwifery, and World War II.