Maternal death and pregnancy-related morbidity among indigenous women of Mexico and Central America : an anthropological, epidemiological, and biomedical approach /: an anthropological, epidemiological, and biomedical approach. (2018)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: David A. Schwartz, editor.
• Editors: Schwartz, David A
• Contents: Intro; Series Editorial Advisory Board; Foreword; The Reproductive and Maternal Health of Indigenous Women Is a Human Right; Acknowledgments; Contents; About the Contributors and Editor; Part I: Reproductive and Maternal Health Among Indigenous Women of Mexico & Central America; 1: Introduction to Indigenous Women and Their Pregnancies: Misunderstood, Stigmatized, and at Risk; 1.1 Maternal Death in Developing Countries; 1.2 Indigenous People; 1.3 Maternal Death Among Indigenous Women in Mexico and Central America. 1.4 A Multidisciplinary Approach to Improving Maternal Survival Among Indigenous WomenReferences; 2: Aztec Pregnancy: Archaeological and Cultural Foundations for Motherhood and Childbearing in Ancient Mesoamerica; 2.1 Introduction; 2.2 The Aztecs; 2.3 The Florentine Codex and Friar Bernardino de Sahagún; 2.4 Motherhood and Fertility Deities of the Aztecs; 2.4.1 Tlazolteotl: A Goddess of Midwives; 2.4.2 Chalchiuhtlicue: Patron Goddess of Childbirth; 2.4.3 Cihuacoatl: Goddess of Midwives and the Sweat Bath; 2.4.4 Coatlicue: Patron Goddess of Childbirth. 2.4.5 Tzitzimitl: Goddess of Fertility2.4.6 Ixtlilton: God of Medicine and Healing; 2.5 Aztec Pregnancy and the Tlamatlquiticitl (Midwife); 2.6 The Birth of the Baby; 2.7 Multiple Births; 2.8 Fetal Death and Abortion; 2.9 Maternal Death; 2.10 Cihuateteo: Goddesses of Women Dying During Childbirth; References; 3: Hypertensive Mothers, Obstetric Hemorrhage, and Infections: Biomedical Aspects of Maternal Death Among Indigenous Women in Mexico and Central America; 3.1 Introduction; 3.2 The Hypertensive Diseases of Pregnancy: Preeclampsia and Eclampsia; 3.2.1 Epidemiology. 3.2.2 Pathophysiology3.2.3 The Placenta and Preeclampsia; 3.2.4 Decidua; 3.2.5 Kidneys; 3.2.6 Liver; 3.2.7 Central Nervous System; 3.2.8 Hypertensive Diseases of Pregnancy in Indigenous Women in Mexico and Central America; 3.2.8.1 Calcium Supplementation and Preeclampsia in Mayan Women in Guatemala; 3.2.8.2 Prepregnancy Body Mass Index and Preeclampsia in Maya-Mestizo Women in Mexico; 3.2.8.3 Nitrous Oxide Synthase Genotype and Preeclampsia in Maya-Mestizo Women in Mexico; 3.2.8.4 Isozyme Polymorphisms and Preeclampsia in Maya-Mestizo Women in Mexico.
• Publisher Details: Cham : Springer
• Publication Date: 2018
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 618.39200972; Medicine; Mothers -- Mortality -- Mexico; Pregnancy -- Complications -- Mexico; Mothers -- Mortality -- Central America; Pregnancy -- Complications -- Central America; MEDICAL -- Gynecology & Obstetrics; Mothers -- Mortality; Pregnancy -- Complications; Obstetrics/Perinatology/Midwifery; Health & Fitness -- Diseases -- Genetic; Social Science -- Anthropology -- Physical; Medical -- Epidemiology; Reproductive medicine; Medical anthropology; Epidemiology & medical statistics; Gynaecology & obstetrics; Maternal and infant welfare; Reproductive Medicine; Medical anthropology; Epidemiology; Obstetrics; Medical -- Nursing -- Maternity, Perinatal, Women's Health; Materno-fetal medicine; Central America; Mexico; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9783319715384; 3319715380
• Related ISBNs: 9783319715377; 3319715372
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