Quattrocchi PatriziaUniversity of Udine | UNIUD · Department of Humanities and Cultural Heritage
Quattrocchi Patrizia
Phd in Ethno-Antropology
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Introduction
I’m an Italian medical anthropologist.
I’m interested in how different contexts respond to the over-medicalization of birth and women's agency and policies in birth.
I have been worked in Honduras (1998) and in Mexico (2000-2009).
In 2010, I returned to Italy thanks to the EU “Marie Curie Grant” (7FP) to conduct a research on out-of-hospital childbirth in three European countries.
In 2016, I obtained a second “Marie Curie Grant” to carry out a research on obstetric violence.
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¿Por qué el trabajo de parto de una obra puede tornarse en una guerra
difícil y su nacimiento despertar una fructífera polémica social? La
única respuesta que encontramos: porque las circunstancias de su
concepción, embarazo, trabajo de parto y expulsión fueron por demás adversas. Esta obra quiere convocar, provocar y exigir un nuevo
diálogo en...
In Latin America, over the past decade, the term "obstetric violence" has become part of the legal framework. Specific laws against obstetric violence-gender-based violence and the violation of human rights-exist in Venezuela, Argentina, Mexico, Brazil and Uruguay. In the European countries a political, social and medical debate on the matter is st...
In Latin America, over the past decade, the term “obstetric violence” has become part of the legal framework. Specific laws against obstetric violence – gender-based violence and the violation of human rights – exist in Venezuela, Argentina, Mexico, Brazil and Uruguay. In Europe, the issue is raised by human rights organizations, social movements a...
El artículo comenta el volumen de Judith ORTEGA CANTO y José PEREZMOTUL(coordinadores), Cánceres en mujeres mayas de Yucatán. Pobreza, género y comunicación social, Plaza y Valdés Editores, México, 2017, 246 pp.
La autora ha participado a la investigación presentada en el volumen.
En América Latina, en la década pasada, se introdujo un nuevo término legal para proteger a las mujeres durante el parto: "violencia obstétrica". El concepto se refiere a actos en el contexto del parto y del nacimiento categorizados como violencia física o psicológica, debido al uso injustificado de intervenciones médicas, al trato deshumanizador y...
En este trabajo se presentan algunos elementos que caracterizan el saber y el aprovechamiento de la prueba de Papanicolau en las mujeres mayas del municipio de Peto, Yucatán. El intento es tomar en cuenta aspectos que proceden de las experiencias de las mujeres mismas.
In order to analyze the risk perception related to the use and handling of organochlorine pesticides (OCP) in agricultural and livestock activities in Maya communities of Yucatan, Mexico, and to gain knowledge about their impact on public health and environment, we conducted an analytical study applying 274 semi-structured interviews in 11 municipa...
Del massaggio terapeutico detto sobada, effettuato dalle levatrici maya dello Yucatan alle donne incinte e alle puerpere, mi sono occupata più volte.Ciò che non ho esplorato in maniera sufficiente e che costituisce l’oggetto della presente discussione è fino a che punto questa pratica, nelle tante risignificazioni assunte nel contesto di crescente...
"Sobada" is one of the most popular massage techniques in the Yucatan state of Mexico, particularly linked with Mayan women's pregnancy and reproductive health. At first, it could look like a simple massage technique, but it has deep symbolic meanings that influence the local representation of body and birth. Sobada, in fact, has gained new and une...
The study analyses the treatment of the margins and orifices of the body, though in different forms, in Honduras (the village of La Campa) and Mexico (the village of Kaua). Emphasis is placed on the practices of symbolic "closure" of the bodies of women in childbirth in the Lenca and Maya peoples. These practices hark back to a conception of the bo...
The form of massage called sobada is one of the most important thera peutic practices in the Yucatán (Mexico) today. It deals with the "repositioning" of a number of internal organs of the human body that are considered momentarily "out of place". Among the organs treated is the ti'pté, an organ that, in the opinion of the inhabitants of the Mayan...
In this paper the author intends to analyse the role of the Lenca ethnic midwives of the La Campa Village, Honduras, with respect to their use of both a traditional medical system and the western medical system. Due to the different forms of professional training that the midwives receive and the putting into practice of a knowledge-based system th...
