Childbirth in Santiago de Chile: Stratification, Intervention, and Child Centeredness.
On the basis of ethnographic work with women from different economic and educational backgrounds in Santiago, I describe the experiences of labor and birth from the point of view of women's priorities, socioeconomic constraints, and relationships with the medical system. I specifically focus on thei...
| Publicado en: | Medical Anthropology Quarterly Vol. 26; no. 3; pp. 319 - 338 |
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Wiley-Blackwell
Sep2012
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