Unsafe motherhood
Subtitle: Mayan maternal mortality and subjectivity in post-war Guatemala
By: Nicole S. Berry
Series: Fertility, reproduction and sexuality -- v. 21; Fertility, reproduction, and sexuality -- v. 21.
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 250
ISBN-13: 9781845457525
Subjects: Ethnology; Maternal Welfare; Mothers; Childbirth at home; Prenatal Care; Complications; Maternal health services; Pregnancy; Maternal Mortality; Mortality
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Life, birth and death in the village; title: Coming to the ER : analysis of an interaction; title: Global safe motherhood and making local pregnancy safer : the spin and what it covers up; title: The Indio bruto and modern Guatemalan healthcare; title: Everyday violence : from a Kaqchikel village to the nation and back; title: Praying for a good outcome : staying at home during obstetric problems.