Delivering Health
Delivering Health Maternal health outcomes are a key focus of global health initiatives. Dixon uncovers the ways such outcomes have been shaped by broader historical, political, and social factors in…
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Delivering Health
Maternal health outcomes are a key focus of global health initiatives. Dixon uncovers the ways such outcomes have been shaped by broader historical, political, and social factors in Mexico, through the perspectives of those who are at the front lines fighting for change: midwives.Midwives have long been marginalized in Mexico as remnants of the country's precolonial past, yet Dixon shows how they are now strategically positioning themselves as agents of modernity and development. In Delivering Health, author Lydia Z.
Delivering Health ethnographically examines three such schools with very different educational approaches and professional goals. Midwifery education programs have popped up across Mexico, each with their own critique of the health care system and vision for how midwifery can help. From San Miguel de Allende to Oaxaca to Michoac n and points between,