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This is a book review of a fascinating book by a North American anthropologist on midwifery in Guatemala
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Why is it important?
Good applied example of move from social to medical model of midwifery. Something I have written about in a sociology journal some years ago: van Teijlingen E. (2005) A critical analysis of the medical model as used in the study of pregnancy and childbirth, Sociological Research Online, 10 (2) Web address: http://www.socresonline.org.uk/10/2/teijlingen.html
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This page is a summary of: Midwives and Mothers: The Medicalization of Childbirth on a Guatemalan Plantation by Sheila Cosminsky Austin: University of Texas Press, 2016. 318 pp., American Anthropologist, June 2018, Wiley,
DOI: 10.1111/aman.13022.
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