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Childbirth, maternity, and medical pluralism in French colonial Vietnam, 1880-1945 / Thuy Linh Nguyen.

Title
Childbirth, maternity, and medical pluralism in French colonial Vietnam, 1880-1945 / Thuy Linh Nguyen.
Author
Nguyen, Thuy Linh (Historian),
Publication
Rochester, NY : University of Rochester Press, 2016.

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Description
viii, 244 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.
Summary
"Explores the complex interactions between French medicine and Vietnamese childbirth traditions, documenting the emergence of a plural system of maternity services that incorporated both biomedical knowledge and local birthing traditions"--
Series Statement
Rochester studies in medical history, 1526-2715 ; v. 37
Subject
  • Birth customs
  • Birth customs > Vietnam > History
  • Childbirth
  • Childbirth > Vietnam > History
  • Infant health services
  • Infant health services > Vietnam > History
  • Integrative medicine
  • Integrative medicine > Vietnam > History
  • Maternal health services
  • Maternal health services > Vietnam > History
  • Medicalization
  • Medicalization > Vietnam > History
  • Midwifery
  • Midwifery > Vietnam > History
  • Obstetrics
  • Obstetrics > Vietnam > History
  • Parturition
  • Vietnam
Genre/Form
History.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
The first encounters -- Maternity hospitals -- Colonial midwives -- The bà mụ and childbirth pluralism -- Scientific motherhood and the teaching of maternity -- The Depression era and the discovery of the child.
ISBN
  • 9781580465687
  • 1580465684
LCCN
^^2016025374
OCLC
945359309
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library