LEADER 03796nam 2200697Ia 450 001 9910820585003321 005 20240516115713.0 010 $a1-283-49196-6 010 $a9786613491961 010 $a0-8135-5201-X 024 7 $a10.36019/9780813552019 035 $a(CKB)2550000000084257 035 $a(EBL)858959 035 $a(OCoLC)775872940 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000612499 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11358697 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000612499 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10571975 035 $a(PQKB)10089603 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC858959 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse19662 035 $a(DE-B1597)530067 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780813552019 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL858959 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10533625 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL349196 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000000084257 100 $a20110120d2011 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aPatient citizens, immigrant mothers$b[electronic resource] $eMexican women, public prenatal care, and the birth-weight paradox /$fAlyshia Ga?lvez 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aNew Brunswick, NJ $cRutgers University Press$dc2011 215 $a1 online resource (230 p.) 225 1 $aCritical issues in health and medicine 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-8135-5141-2 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tContents -- $tAcknowledgments -- $tChapter 1. Paradoxes and Patients: Immigrants and Prenatal Care -- $tChapter 2. Immigrant Aspirations and the Decisions Families Make -- $tChapter 3. Remembering Reproductive Care in Rural Mexico -- $tChapter 4. Becoming Patients: Birth Experiences in New York City -- $tChapter 5. Critical Perspectives on Prenatal Care -- $tChapter 6. Prenatal Care and the Reception of Immigrants: Reflections and Suggestions for Change -- $tEpilogue -- $tNotes -- $tReferences -- $tIndex 330 $aAccording to the Latina health paradox, Mexican immigrant women have less complicated pregnancies and more favorable birth outcomes than many other groups, in spite of socioeconomic disadvantage. Alyshia Gálvez provides an ethnographic examination of this paradox. What are the ways that Mexican immigrant women care for themselves during their pregnancies? How do they decide to leave behind some of the practices they bring with them on their pathways of migration in favor of biomedical approaches to pregnancy and childbirth? This book takes us from inside the halls of a busy metropolitan hospital?s public prenatal clinic to the Oaxaca and Puebla states in Mexico to look at the ways Mexican women manage their pregnancies. The mystery of the paradox lies perhaps not in the recipes Mexican-born women have for good perinatal health, but in the prenatal encounter in the United States. Patient Citizens, Immigrant Mothers is a migration story and a look at the ways that immigrants are received by our medical institutions and by our society 410 0$aCritical issues in health and medicine. 606 $aWomen$zMexico$xSocial conditions 606 $aWomen immigrants$zUnited States$xSocial conditions 606 $aPrenatal care$zUnited States 606 $aChildbirth$zUnited States$vCross-cultural studies 615 0$aWomen$xSocial conditions. 615 0$aWomen immigrants$xSocial conditions. 615 0$aPrenatal care 615 0$aChildbirth 676 $a306.874/30896872073 700 $aGa?lvez$b Alyshia$01624793 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910820585003321 996 $aPatient citizens, immigrant mothers$93959972 997 $aUNINA