Learning to Care: How Midwifery and Obstetric Training in Mexico Shapes Patient Experiences
Venue
Teaching Room 12 (01M.469) - Doorway 3, Medical SchoolUniversity of Edinburgh, Teviot Place
Edinburgh EH8 9AG
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Description
Drawing on ethnographic research with midwives, educators, politicians, and physicians in Mexico, this talk explores how diverse stakeholders believe that maternal health care should be taught, what the scope of practice for providers should be, and how these factors shape patients’ experiences of care and health outcomes during and after birth.
This is an in-person event, which takes place in Teaching Room 12 (01M.469) - Doorway 3, Medical School, Teviot.
This event may be recorded. The recording will be used for internal University of Edinburgh teaching purposes only.
The event is organised and chaired by Chiara Chiavaroli, Teaching Fellow, Social Anthropology, and Lucy Lowe, Senior Lecturer in Medical Anthropology, University of Edinburgh.
About our Speaker:
Dr Lydia Z. Dixon is a medical anthropologist and Associate Professor of Health Science at California State University, Channel Islands, and is currently a US-UK Fulbright Scholar at Edinburgh Napier University. She has researched and written on midwifery education and practice, obstetric violence, and cesarean birth, primarily in Mexico. Her current project focuses on midwifery training in rural Scotland.
Key speakers
- Dr Lydia Z. Dixon, Medical Anthropologist and Assoc. Prof. of Health Science, California State University