Unsafe motherhood
Subtitle: Mayan maternal mortality and subjectivity in post-war Guatemala
By: Nicole S. Berry
Series: Fertility, reproduction and sexuality -- volume 21
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Published: 2013
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 250
ISBN-13: 9780857457912; 9780857458247
Subjects: Mothers; Mortality; Pregnancy; Complications; Maternal health services; Childbirth at home
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-235) and indexes.
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.