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Changing Birth in the Andes: Culture, Policy, and Safe Motherhood in Peru
Lucia Guerra-Reyes
Changing Birth in the Andes: Culture, Policy, and Safe Motherhood in Peru
Lucia Guerra-Reyes
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”.
240 pages
Media | Books Paperback Book (Book with soft cover and glued back) |
Released | July 30, 2019 |
ISBN13 | 9780826522375 |
Publishers | Vanderbilt University Press |
Pages | 240 |
Dimensions | 152 × 228 × 15 mm · 525 g |
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