Patient Citizens, Immigrant Mothers

Author: Alyshia Galvez
Edition: 1
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 0813551412
Category: Medical

Patient Citizens, Immigrant Mothers: Mexican Women, Public Prenatal Care, and the Birth Weight Paradox (Critical Issues in Health and Medicine)

According to the Latina health paradox, Mexican immigrant women have less complicated pregnancies and more favorable birth outcomes than many other groups, in spite of socioeconomic disadvantage. Download Patient Citizens, Immigrant Mothers medical books for free.
Alyshia GAlvez provides an ethnographic examination of this paradox. 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. The mystery of the Get Patient Citizens, Immigrant Mothers our bestseller medical books.

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Alyshia GAlvez provides an ethnographic examination of this paradox The mystery of the

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