Gender, state, and medicine in Highland Ecuador
Subtitle: modernizing women, modernizing the state, 1895-1950
By: A. Kim Clark
Series: Pitt Latin American series
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Pittsburgh, Pa
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780822962090
Subjects: Government policy; Social policy; Social conditions; Public welfare; Medical education; Women's rights; Medical care; History; Women
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Gendered experiences and state formation in Highland Ecuador; title: Gender, class, and state in child protection programs in Quito; title: Governing sexuality and disease; title: Midwifery, morality, and the state; title: The transformation of Ecuadorian nursing.