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| Title: | Cosmopolitical obstetrics: Some insights from the training of traditional midwives. |
| Author: | Jordan, Brigitte |
| Abstract: |
Draws on data from several years of ethnographic fieldwork with Mayan midwives in Mexico to account for the general failure of government-sponsored training courses designed to upgrade the skills of indigenous midwives. The primary reason for this failure
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| Journal: | Social Science & Medicine, Vol 28(9), 1989: 925-937 |