Delivering Health: Midwifery and Development in Mexico PDF
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Delivering HealtH SerieS eDitorS: Svea Closser, Emily Mendenhall, Judith Justice, & Peter J. Brown Policy to Practice: Ethnographic Perspectives on Global Health Systems illustrates and pro- vides critical perspectives on how global health policy becomes practice, and how critical scholarship can itself inform global public health policy. Policy to Practice provides a venue for relevant work from a variety of disciplines, including anthropology, sociology, history, political science, and critical public health. Delivering Health Midwifery and Development in Mexico Lydia Z. dixon Vanderbilt UniVersity Press Nashville, Tennessee © 2020 by Vanderbilt University Press Nashville, Tennessee 37235 All rights reserved First printing 2020 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Names: Dixon, Lydia Zacher, 1980– author. Title: Delivering health : midwifery and development in Mexico / Lydia Z. Dixon. Description: Nashville : Vanderbilt University Press, [2020] | Series: Policy to practice | Includes bibliographical references and index. Identifiers: lCCn 2020015428 (print) | lCCn 2020015429 (ebook) | isbn 9780826501134 (paperback) | isbn 9780826501141 (hardcover) | isbn 9780826501158 (epub) | isbn 9780826501165 (pdf) Subjects: LCSH: Midwifery—Mexico. | Midwives—Training of—Mexico. | Midwifery—Study and teaching—Mexico. Classification: lCC rG963.M6 d59 2020 (print) | lCC rG963.M6 (ebook) | ddC 618.200972—dc23 lC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2020015428 lC ebook record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2020015429 To my daughter Juno, and to all the midwives and the mothers Contents Acknowledgments ix Prologue xiii introdUCtion 1 1. Midwifery in Mexico and Beyond 35 2. Breaking Out of the “Uterus Box” 65 3. Maternal Conditions 92 4. Obstetrics in a Time of Violence 118 5. Modern Tradition 144 ConClUsion: Creating Demand and Demanding Change 175 Notes 193 References 199 Index 213 ACkno wledgments If the body of this book has not made it clear enough, I want to sincerely acknowledge the incredibly hard work done by the midwives, students, doctors, nurses, school administrators, public health workers, and activ- ists whose struggles and achievements I have tried to make sense of here. Along the way, I met many people working in the world of women’s health in Mexico with starkly divergent ideas about how to improve health outcomes and experiences; yet, despite their differences, they all reflected a passion for the women, families, and communities they were trying to help. The level of trust and openness extended to me was humbling, and I hope that I have done well by these diverse actors to represent their work. While the research for this book took years, the final writing phases of it went relatively quickly. I want to thank the whole team at Vanderbilt University Press, but especially my editor, Zack Gresham, for his kindness, encouragement, and humor. His positivity kept me going during this pro- cess. I thank my reviewers, too, who made this book stronger through their careful readings and suggestions. This book and the research that went into it could not have been com- pleted without the following generous sources of funding: The Fletcher Jones Foundation Fellowship, Dr. Dard Magnus Rossell Memorial Award, UC Irvine Associate Dean’s Fellowship, Inter-American Foundation Disser- tation Research Fellowship, UC Irvine Center for Organizational Research, UC Irvine Global Health Framework Research and Travel Fellowship, UC MEXUS, and the UC Irvine Department of Anthropology. My initial intro- duction to professional midwifery in Mexico was funded through a Univer- sity of Chicago Human Rights Internship Program. This book probably would not have been finished at all without the amazingly productive UC Irvine Steele/Burnand Anza-Borrego Desert Research Station writing retreat, where many feverish revisions were completed, and without the support of the Faculty Success Program (through the National Center for Faculty [ ix ]
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