Patient Citizens, Immigrant Mothers: Mexican Women, Public Prenatal Care, and the Birth Weight Paradox (Critical Issues in Health and Medicine)
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| Rating | : | 4.19 (780 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0813551420 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 230 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-12-30 |
| Language | : | English |
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Dastardly_Diego said Worth the read, but could have taken the extra step into its subjects lives.. This book follows the lives of pregnant Mexican immigrants as they seek healthcare in New York. Its well written and authoritative, however there is a measure of almost clinical distance between the writer and her subjects that makes this less of an ethnography and more of a sociological study.
What are the ways that Mexican immigrant women care for themselves during their pregnancies? How do they decide to leave behind some of the practices they bring with them on their pathways of migration in favor of biomedical approaches to pregnancy and childbirth?This book takes us from inside the halls of a busy metropolitan hospital’s public prenatal clinic to the Oaxaca and Puebla states in Mexico to look at the ways Mexican women manage their pregnancies. Alyshia Gálvez provides
"Alyshia Galvez challenges conventional wisdom on how Latinas plan families, making a very important contribution to understanding the Latino health paradox."