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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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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Request in advance | RG518.V5 N48 2016 | Off-site |
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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