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Record Nr.

UNINA9910810197703321

Autore

Smith Susan Lynn <1960->

Titolo

Japanese American midwives : 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

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (297 pages)

Collana

The Asian American experience

Disciplina

362.198/2/0089956073

Soggetti

Midwifery - United States - History

Midwifery - Japan - History

Midwives - United States - History

Midwives - Japan - History

Japanese American women - History

Japanese - United States - History

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.

Sommario/riassunto

Setting the history of Japanese American midwives in context, this book reveals little-known ethnic, racial, and regional aspects of women's history and the history of medicine. It demonstrates the impossibility of separating domestic policy from foreign policy, and public health from racial politics, medical care from women's care giving.