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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...

Resource Type:

Dissertation

Full Text:

its devastating aftermath (Kishore et al. 2018; Santos-Lozada and Howard 2018; Zorrilla 2017). In