Midwives in Mexico: Situated Politics, Politically Situated - Paperback

by Hanna Laako (Author), Georgina Sánchez-Ramírez (Author)

This book presents the contemporary history and dynamics of Mexican midwifery - professional, (post)modern or autonomous, traditional and Indigenous - as profoundly political and embedded in differing societal stratifications.

Author Biography

Hanna Laako is a Senior Researcher at the Department of Social Sciences of the University of Eastern Finland (UEF).

Georgina Sánchez-Ramírez is a Researcher-Professor at El Colegio de la Frontera Sur (ECOSUR) in San Cristóbal de Las Casas, Chiapas, Mexico. She is also member of the Mexican National System of Researchers (CONACYT).