Unsafe Motherhood: Mayan Maternal Mortality and Subjectivity in Post-War Guatemala

• Follows the global policies that have been implemented in Sololá, Guatemala in order to decrease high rates of maternal mortality among indigenous Mayan women.
• Examines the diverse meanings and understandings of motherhood, pregnancy, birth and birth-related death among the biomedical personnel, village women, their families, and midwives.
• Shows how pregnancy and birth are central opportunities for developing understandings of family and self, and how the importance of this opportunity frequenlty neuters global interventions to make birth safer.
• Provides a comprehensive view of the various agendas (global, national govenrnment, state government, municipal government and within families) and contextual factors (trends in science, politics, culture) that influence the success of global health policy.

Author: Nicole S. Berry
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Published: 12/01/2012
Pages: 260
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.81lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.58d
ISBN: 9780857457912

About the Author
Berry, Nicole S.: -

Nicole S. Berry is an Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Health Sciences at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, British Columbia.