Published December, 2016
By Sheila Cosminsky
Publisher: University of Texas Press
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Covering a forty-year period, this comparative and longitudinal study traces the medicalization of birth in Guatemala and its effects on women's lives and their economic and social status.

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Published December, 2016
By Sheila Cosminsky
Publisher: University of Texas Press
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Covering a forty-year period, this comparative and longitudinal study traces the medicalization of birth in Guatemala and its effects on women's lives and their economic and social status.

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Published May, 2016
By Okezi T Otovo
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This illuminating study explores the social and cultural history of Brazilian family health and welfare policies-particularly the effect of the reform-minded maternalist movement on impoverished women and children and on the uneven integration of Afro-Bra

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Published May, 2016
By Okezi T Otovo
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This illuminating study explores the social and cultural history of Brazilian family health and welfare policies-particularly the effect of the reform-minded maternalist movement on impoverished women and children and on the uneven integration of Afro-Bra

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Published June, 2015
By Jessica Scott Jerome
Publisher: University of Texas Press
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Published August, 2013
By Ellen J. Amster
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Reveals how Moroccans ingested and digested French science and used it to create a nationalist movement and Islamist politics, and to understand disease and health

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Published August, 2013
By Ellen J. Amster, Rajae El Aoued and Rajaed El Aoued
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Exploring the colonial encounter between France and Morocco as a process of embodiment, and the Muslim body as the place of resistance to the state, this book provides the first history of medicine, health, disease, and the welfare state in Morocco.

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Published May, 2013
By Ann Miles
Publisher: University of Texas Press
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One of the first books to explore the meanings and experiences of medically managed chronic illness in the developing world

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Published May, 2013
By Ann Miles
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Enriched with ethnographic stories of Ecuadorian women who struggle with the autoimmune disorder, lupus erythematosus, this book is one of the first to explore the meanings and experiences of medically managed chronic illness in the developing world.

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Published January, 2012
By Gordon Schendel, Jose Alvarez Amezquita and Miguel E. Bustamante
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A witch doctor casting an evil spell in a steaming jungle village; a world-renowned scientist doing research in Mexico City - all were part of mid-twentieth century medical scene in Mexico, a country of great cultural, socioeconomic, and geographical contrasts. This title relates history of medicine and public health and welfare in Mexico.

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