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Contents

List of Figures
Acknowledgements

Prologue: The Story of Rosario

Introduction: The Specter of Death

Chapter 1. Life, Birth and Death in the Village
Chapter 2. Coming to the ER: Analysis of an Interaction
Chapter 3. Global Safe Motherhood and Making Local Pregnancy Safer: The Spin and What It Covers Up
Chapter 4. The Indio Bruto and Modern Guatemalan Healthcare
Chapter 5. Everyday Violence: From a Kaqchikel Village to the Nation and Back
Chapter 6. Praying for a Good Outcome: Staying at Home during Obstetric Problems
Conclusion: Putting the ‘Maternal’ Back in Maternal Mortality

Notes
Bibliography

Unsafe Motherhood

Mayan Maternal Mortality and Subjectivity in Post-War Guatemala

Nicole S. Berry

260 pages, 8 illus., bibliog., index

ISBN  978-1-84545-752-5 Hb Published (October 2010)

eISBN 978-1-84545-996-3 eBook