{"product_id":"patient-citizens-immigrant-mothers-mexican-women-public-prenatal-care-and-the-birth-weight-paradox-9780813551418","title":"Patient Citizens, Immigrant Mothers: Mexican Women, Public Prenatal Care, and the Birth Weight Paradox","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Alyshia Galvez\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Rutgers University Press\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Rutgers University Press\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Parenting - Motherhood\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAccording to the Latina health paradox, Mexican immigrant women have less complicated pregnancies and more favorable birth outcomes than many other groups, in spite of socioeconomic disadvantage. Alyshia G�lvez provides an ethnographic examination of this paradox. What are the ways that Mexican immigrant women care for themselves during their pregnancies? How do they decide to leave behind some of the practices they bring with them on their pathways of migration in favor of biomedical approaches to pregnancy and childbirth?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book takes us from inside the halls of a busy metropolitan hospital's public prenatal clinic to the Oaxaca and Puebla states in Mexico to look at the ways Mexican women manage their pregnancies. The mystery of the paradox lies perhaps not in the recipes Mexican-born women have for good perinatal health, but in the prenatal encounter in the United States. \u003ci\u003ePatient Citizens, Immigrant Mothers \u003c\/i\u003eis a migration story and a look at the ways that immigrants are received by our medical institutions and by our society\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rutgers University Press","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":47600205070487,"sku":"9780813551418","price":8587.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780813551418.webp?v=1775007450","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/patient-citizens-immigrant-mothers-mexican-women-public-prenatal-care-and-the-birth-weight-paradox-9780813551418","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}