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  • Queering the Birthing Body: Coming Out Fatigue and the Medical Gaze

    Creator:
    Danna, Maria N.
    Abstract:
    Queer birthing parents in the Pacific Northwestern United States have multifaceted and variable paths when it comes to conceiving a family. With the innovations in assisted reproductive technology accompanying the wider acceptance and recognition of gender and sexual difference in mainstream society, a greater number of queer birthing parents are...
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    Microsoft Word - Queering the Birthing Body Maria Danna MA

  • Conceiving A Colony: A Multi-Level Biocultural Analysis of the Maternal Stress-Preterm Birth Nexus in Puerto Rico

    Creator:
    Horan, Holly L.
    Abstract:
    This dissertation aims to elicit how a neo-colonial context shapes maternal and infant heath (MIH) outcomes by describing how they are socially, politically, historically, and culturally produced. Using a multi-level critical biocultural, medical anthropological research approach, the purpose of this research was to investigate maternal stress in the United States...
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    Dissertation
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    Maria and how this natural disaster further exposed structural inequities as well as foreshadows the

  • Making the Shift: Narratives of Transfer from Planned Home Birth to the Hospital in the Pacific Northwest

    Creator:
    Houtman, Leah S.
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    About 1% of U.S. births each year are planned home births (Vital Statistics Reports 2017). Of these, roughly 10% transfer to a higher level of care during labor (Melissa Cheyney et al. 2014), yet their experiences are rarely heard. Storytelling has long been used not only as entertainment, but as...
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    Masters Thesis
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    success, even from afar; To Maria Danna and Kylee Barnes for your tireless support as my emotional

  • Shattered lives : understanding obstetric fistula in Uganda

    Creator:
    Ruder, Bonnie J.
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    In Uganda, there are an estimated 200,000 women suffering from obstetric fistula, with 1,900 new cases expected annually. These figures, combined with a persistently high maternal mortality rate, have led to an international discourse that claims the solution to improving maternal health outcomes is facility-based delivery with a skilled birth...
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    Ryan & Danielle - without your belief in me, none of this would have been possible. A special shout

  • Quest for a Cure: Persistent Residual Incontinence Post-obstetric Fistula Repair in Uganda

    Creator:
    Ruder, Bonnie J.
    Abstract:
    Obstetric fistula is estimated to affect 1–2 million women worldwide, predominantly in low-resource countries in sub-Saharan Africa and southeast Asia. The primary intervention for obstetric fistula is surgery, which is described as a relatively simple surgical procedure with an extremely high psychosocial and economic benefit relative to cost. Research addressing...
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    extended family, Stacie and Kevin, Ryan and Danielle, thanks for your love and support. We are always