Complementary, Alternative, and Traditional Medicine Prospects and Challenges for Women's Reproductive Health

https://womenspress.canadianscholars.ca/books/complementary-alternative-and-traditional-medicine#tab_toc

Women’s Press

Subjects

Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies / Health Studies / Medicine / Sociology / Sociology of Health

Approx. 250 pages

6.75 x 9.75 inches
May 2017
Print ISBN: 9781551309187

Purchase Options

Print - $49.95

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements
Introduction

PART I: KEY ISSUES AND HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE

Chapter 1. Introducing Complementary and Alternative Medicine, Traditional Medicine, and Gender, Daniel Hollenberg and Maria Costanza Torri

Chapter 2. Women as Healers in the Global Community: An Overview from Antiquity to the Present, Daniel Hollenberg

Chapter 3. Herbal Fertility Treatments in Colonial North America and Prospects for Modern Medicine, Cheryl Lans and Rachel Westfall

Chapter 4. Being “There” for Pregnant Women: Canadian Midwives in Aboriginal and Settler Communities, Cecilia Benoit, Dena Carroll, and Rachel Westfall

PART II: GLOBAL SOUTH

Chapter 5. Childbirth in Brazil: Voices of Brazilian Women, Natália Rejane Salim and Julie Laplante

Chapter 6. Towards the Construction of Intercultural Birth Practices and Reproductive Health in Ecuador: The Case Study of San Luis Hospital, Maria Costanza Torri

Chapter 7. Giving Birth in the City of Cochabamba, Bolivia: Traditional Birth Attendants’ Practices Versus Biomedical Maternal Health Care, Maria Costanza Torri and Julie Laplante

Chapter 8. Women, Jamu, and Breastfeeding Practices in Indonesia, John Paul Nyonator

Chapter 9. Traditional Medicine and Reproductive Health, Conception, and Fertility in Turkey, Tamer Edirne

Chapter 10. Birth from the Peripheries: Local Realities in Dzodze, Ghana, John Paul Nyonator

PART III: GLOBAL NORTH

Chapter 11. How Alternative? A Postcolonial Feminist Analysis of Two Popular Complementary and Alternative Medicine Hot Flash Remedies, Nadine E. Ijaz

Chapter 12. The Use of Complementary and Alternative Medicine by Australian Women for Infertility, Jo-Anne Rayner and Karen Willis

Chapter 13. Traditional Chinese Medicine Practitioners’ Constructions of “Hard” and “Soft” Evidence in the Treatment of Fertility Issues: Opportunities and Challenges, Ana M. Ning

Chapter 14. The Value of Complementary and Alternative Medicine for Breast Cancer Survivorship, Ausanee Wanchai, Jane M. Armer, and Bob R. Stewart

Conclusion
Contributors