Name: Changing Birth in the Andes: Culture, Policy, and Safe Motherhood in Peru (en Inglés)
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Author: Lucia Guerra-Reyes
ISBN: 9780826522368

portada Changing Birth in the Andes: Culture, Policy, and Safe Motherhood in Peru (en Inglés)

Changing Birth in the Andes: Culture, Policy, and Safe Motherhood in Peru (en Inglés)

Formato

Libro Físico

Editorial

Vanderbilt University Press

Autor

Lucia Guerra-Reyes

Año

2019

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

240

Encuadernación

Tapa Dura

ISBN13

9780826522368

Categorías

Salud pública y medicina preventiva

Changing Birth in the Andes: Culture, Policy, and Safe Motherhood in Peru (en Inglés)

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In 1997, when Lucia Guerra-Reyes 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." They failed to see how their aim of achieving low rates of maternal mortality clashed with the experiences of local women, who often feared public health centers, where they could experience discrimination and verbal or physical abuse. Mainly, the women and their families sought a "good" birth, which was normally a home birth that corresponded with Andean perceptions of health as a balance of bodily humors.Peru's Intercultural Birthing Policy of 2005 was intended to solve these longstanding issues by recognizing indigenous cultural values and making biomedical care more accessible and desirable for indigenous women. Yet many difficulties remain.Guerra-Reyes also gives ethnographic attention to health care workers. She explains the class and educational backgrounds of traditional birth attendants and midwives, interviews doctors and health care administrators, and describes their interactions with local families. Interviews with national policy makers put the program in context.