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Record Nr.

UNINA9910462642903321

Autore

Smith Susan Lynn <1960->

Titolo

Japanese American Midwives [[electronic resource] ] : Culture, Community, and Health Politics, 1880-1950 / / Susan L. Smith

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Urbana, : University of Illinois Press, c2005

ISBN

1-283-60906-1

9786613921512

0-252-09243-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (297 p.)

Collana

Asian American Experience

Disciplina

362.1982

Soggetti

Race Relations - history - United States

Health Policy - history - United States

Asian Americans - history - United States

Midwifery - history - United States

Japanese - United States - History

Japanese American women - History

Midwives - Japan - History

Midwives - United States - History

Midwifery - Japan - History

Midwifery - United States - History

Electronic books.

Japan Emigration and immigration History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [253]-269) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Creation of the sanba in Meiji Japan -- Race relations, midwife regulations, and the sanba in the American west -- Seattle sanba and the creation of Issei community -- Midwife supervision in Hawai'i -- Militarization, midwifery, and World War II.