Complementary, alternative, & traditional medicine : prospects and challenges for women's reproductive health

Hornosty, Jennie Mary, 1944- (editor.). Torri, Maria Costanza, (editor.).

Summary: "This edited collection is about the use of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) and traditional medicine (TM) within the context of women's reproductive health. It adopts a perspective drawn from different social sciences (sociology, medical anthropology, history, and health studies) to discuss topics such as fertility, menopause, pregnancy, child birth practices, post-natal care, breastfeeding, and breast cancer. The contributors explore the uses and values attributed to CAM and TM for women's reproductive health across diverse cultures from the point of view of patients, CAM/TM practitioners, and other health care providers. This text provides insights into the wide spectrum of practices, approaches, and beliefs that define CAM and TM, and situates women's health issues within the local socio-cultural, geographic, economic, historical, and political contexts in which they exist. It also explores some challenges to the integration of TM and CAM with biomedicine." --

Record details

ISBN: 9781551309187 (softcover)
Physical Description: print
xxiv, 258 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Publisher: Toronto ; Women's Press, [2017]
Copyright: ©2017

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	Introducing complementary and alternative medicine, traditional medicine and gender / Daniel Hollenberg and Costanza Torri -- Women as healers in the global community : an overview from antiquity to the present / Daniel Hollenberg -- Herbal fertility treatments in colonial North America and prospects for modern medicine / Cheryl Lans and Rachel Westfall -- Being "there" for pregnant women : Canadian midwives in Indigenous and settler communities / Cecilia Benoit, Dena Carroll, and Rachel Westfall -- Childbirth in Brazil : voices of Brazilian women / Natalia Rejane Salim and Julie Laplante -- Intercultural birth practices and reproductive health in Eduador / Costanza Torri -- Giving birth in the city of Cochabamba, Bolivia : traditional birth attendants' practices versus biomedical maternal health care / Costanza Torri and Julie Laplante -- Women, Jamu, and breast feeding practices in Indonesia / John Paul Nyonator -- Traditional medicine and reproductive health, conception, and fertility in Turkey / Tamer Edirne -- Birth from the peripheries : local realities in Dzodze, Ghana / John Paul Nyonator -- A post-colonial feminist analysis of two popular complementary medicine hot flash remedies / Nadine E. Ijaz -- The use of complementary and alternative medicine by Australian women for infertility / Jo-Anne Rayner and Karen Willis -- Traditional Chinese medicine practitioners' constructions of "hard" and "soft" evidence in the treatment of fertility issues : opportunities and challenges / Ana M. Ning -- The value of complementary and alternative medicine for breast cancer survivorship / Ausanee Wanchai, Jane M. Armer and Bob R. Stewart.
Additional Physical Form available Note:	Issued also in electronic formats.