Japanese American midwives : culture, community, and health politics, 1880-1950

Japanese American midwives : culture, community, and health politics, 1880-1950 / Susan L. Smith.

Setting the history of Japanese American midwives in context, this book reveals little-known ethnic, racial, and regional aspects of women's history and the history of medicine. It demonstrates the impossibility of separating domestic policy from foreign policy, and public health from racial po...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Smith, Susan Lynn, 1960-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2005]
Series:Asian American experience.
Subjects:
Midwifery > United States > History.
Midwifery > Japan > History.
Midwives > United States > History.
Midwives > Japan > History.
Japanese American women > History.
Japanese > United States > History.
HEALTH & FITNESS > Pregnancy & Childbirth.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Women's Studies.
Emigration and immigration
Japanese
Japanese American women
Midwifery
Midwives
Japan > Emigration and immigration > History.
Japan
United States
History
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Table of Contents:
  • Creation of the sanba in Meiji Japan
  • Race relations, midwife regulations, and the sanba in the American west
  • Seattle sanba and the creation of Issei community
  • Midwife supervision in Hawai'i
  • Militarization, midwifery, and World War II.

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