Why Restoring Birth as Ceremony Can Promote Health Equity
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 15747276 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Marinah V Farrell (Institute of Justice, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 24 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | E326-332 |
| Publication date | 2022-04-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The AMA Journal of Ethic (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2376-6980 • E-ISSN: 2376-6980 |
| Publisher | American Medical Association (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1001/amajethics.2022.326 |
| PMID | 35405060 |
| OpenAlex | W4223493446 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 6 |
Until the mid-20th century, birth in the United States for Latinx Indigenous peoples was an ancestral ceremony guided by midwives and traditional healers ( parteras curanderas ). As American physicians and nurses increasingly differentiated themselves from traditional midwives, midwives of color in particular were disparaged and excluded from helping women give birth and thus from making birth a cultural foothold in their lives. As a result, communities of Latinx Indigenous peoples were culturally and spiritually separated-via the marginalization of parteras- from important health traditions, which caused suffering and illness. Reimplementation of birth as ceremony means babies can be born (and communities reborn) into an ancestral cultural ecology characterized by safety and cultural reclamation of healing
Art · Ceremony · Equity (law · Ethnology · Humanities · Indigenous · Political science · Sociology · Gender Studies · History · Indigenous Health, Education, and Rights · Latin American and Latino Studies · Law
| Citations per year | 0.5 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2022 - 2026 (5) |
| Highly cited | No |