| A Good Position for Birth: Pregnancy, Risk, and Development in Southern Belize Contributor(s): Maraesa, Aminata (Author) |
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ISBN: 0826522009 ISBN-13: 9780826522009 Publisher: Vanderbilt University Press OUR PRICE: $98.95 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: November 2018 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Medical | Health Care Delivery - Political Science | World - Caribbean & Latin American - Medical | Public Health |
| Dewey: 362.198 |
| LCCN: 2017044710 |
| Physical Information: 0.9" H x 6.3" W x 9.1" (1.10 lbs) 240 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Latin America |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: In order to understand the local realities of health and development initiatives undertaken to reduce maternal and infant mortality, the author accompanied rural health nurses as they traveled to villages accessible only by foot over waterlogged terrain to set up mobile prenatal and well-child clinics. Through sustained interactions with pregnant women, midwives, traditional birth attendants, and bush doctors, Maraesa encountered reproductive beliefs and practices ranging from obeah pregnancy to 'nointing that compete with global health care workers' directives about risk, prenatal care, and hospital versus home birth. Fear and shame are prominent affective tropes that Maraesa uses to understand women's attitudes toward reproduction that are at times contrary to development discourse but that make sense in the lived experiences of the women of southern Belize. |
Contributor Bio(s): Maraesa, Aminata: - Amínata Maraesa, a medical anthropologist, is co-editor of Risk, Reproduction, and Narratives of Experience (also published by Vanderbilt) and director of the documentary film Woman to Woman: Doula Assisted Childbirth. |