Description
| Product ID: | 9780826522368 |
| Product Form: | Hardback |
| Country of Manufacture: | US |
| Title: | Changing Birth in the Andes |
| Subtitle: | Culture, Policy, and Safe Motherhood in Peru |
| Authors: | Author: Lucia Guerra-Reyes |
| Page Count: | 240 |
| Subjects: | Indigenous peoples, Indigenous peoples, Sociology: family and relationships, Social and cultural anthropology, Public health and preventive medicine, Medical sociology, Sociology: birth, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography, Public health & preventive medicine, Medical sociology, Andes |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating In 1997, when the author began research in Peru, she observed a profound disconnect between the birth care desires of health personnel and those of indigenous women. Midwives and doctors would plead with her as the anthropologist to “educate women about the dangerous inadequacy of their traditions”. |
| Imprint Name: | Vanderbilt University Press |
| Publisher Name: | Vanderbilt University Press |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2019-07-30 |
