Changing Birth in the Andes: Culture, Policy, and Safe Motherhood in Peru - Lucia Guerra-Reyes - Books - Vanderbilt University Press - 9780826522368 - July 15, 2019
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Changing Birth in the Andes: Culture, Policy, and Safe Motherhood in Peru


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In 1997, when the author began research in Peru, she observed a profound disconnect between the birth care desires of health personnel and those of indigenous women. Midwives and doctors would plead with her as the anthropologist to “educate women about the dangerous inadequacy of their traditions”.


240 pages

Media Books     Hardcover Book   (Book with hard spine and cover)
Released July 15, 2019
ISBN13 9780826522368
Publishers Vanderbilt University Press
Pages 290
Dimensions 178 × 254 × 17 mm   ·   539 g

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