Japanese American midwives : culture, community, and health politics, 1880-1950 / / Susan L. Smith

• Autore: Smith Susan Lynn <1960->
• Pubblicazione: Urbana, : University of Illinois Press, c2005
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (297 pages)
• Disciplina: 362.198/2/0089956073
• Soggetto topico: Midwifery - United States - History; Midwifery - Japan - History; Midwives - United States - History; Midwives - Japan - History; Japanese American women - History; Japanese - United States - History
• Soggetto geografico: Japan Emigration and immigration History
• 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Japanese American midwives
• ISBN: 1-283-60906-1; 9786613921512; 0-252-09243-0
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910810197703321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Asian American experience.