Patient citizens, immigrant mothers [[electronic resource] ] : Mexican women, public prenatal care, and the birth-weight paradox / / Alyshia Gálvez

• Autore: Gálvez Alyshia
• Pubblicazione: New Brunswick, NJ, : Rutgers University Press, c2011
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (230 p.)
• Disciplina: 306.874/30896872073
• Soggetto topico: Women - Mexico - Social conditions; Women immigrants - United States - Social conditions; Prenatal care - United States; Childbirth - United States
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter 1. Paradoxes and Patients: Immigrants and Prenatal Care -- Chapter 2. Immigrant Aspirations and the Decisions Families Make -- Chapter 3. Remembering Reproductive Care in Rural Mexico -- Chapter 4. Becoming Patients: Birth Experiences in New York City -- Chapter 5. Critical Perspectives on Prenatal Care -- Chapter 6. Prenatal Care and the Reception of Immigrants: Reflections and Suggestions for Change -- Epilogue -- Notes -- References -- Index
• Sommario/riassunto: According 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
• Titolo autorizzato: Patient citizens, immigrant mothers
• ISBN: 1-283-49196-6; 9786613491961; 0-8135-5201-X
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910457201803321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Critical issues in health and medicine.