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I'm an Italian medical anthropologist. My research interests include reproductive health and policies. I conducted ethnographic research on indigenous Lenca midwifery in Honduras (1998) and in Mayan communities in Mexico (2000–2009), out-of-hospital birth in Italy, Spain, and the Netherlands (2010–2015), and in the last 10 years on obstetric violence. I was awarded three times a EU-Marie Sklodowska Curie Grant. I'm P.I. of the project https://respectfulcare.eu (2024-2027, HORIZON-Staff Exchange)
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This study has been undertaken to inform the European Commission on the issue of obstetric violence in European Union Member States and to contribute to the better understanding of this phenomenon and of current responses to the issue. It is undertaken in the context of growing public awareness of and concern about the issue, an established imperat...
This study aimed to build participatory rural development alternatives to improve living conditions in Maya communities in extreme poverty in vulnerable territories with karst soils and karst groundwater, high deforestation, and the use of toxic and carcinogenic agrochemicals in agriculture, under climate change scenery, using the Local Human Devel...
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The purpose of this review is to summarize the current knowledge on out-of-hospital births (at home or in an independent birth center) in high-income countries in the time of coronavirus. Qualitative studies published between 2020 and 2022 providing findings on women’s and health providers’ perspectives and experiences, as well as...
Questo contributo presenta una sintesi dei principali lavori che hanno ca-ratterizzato l'approccio antropologico all'invecchiamento. L'obiettivo è ren-dere disponibile una cornice di respiro internazionale che delinei-in termini generali-il valore aggiunto dello sguardo antropologico a tale processo. Saranno tratteggiate le principali linee di rice...
Coronial Antropologia della riproduzione e delle sessualità al tempo del Covid-19 F r a n c o A n g e l i ISBN 9788835138112 Copyright © FrancoAngeli N.B: Copia ad uso personale. È vietata la riproduzione (totale o parziale) dell'opera con qualsiasi mezzo effettuata e la sua messa a disposizione di terzi, sia in forma gratuita sia a pagamento.
¿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...
Introduction: Medicalization of birth has increased all over the world in the past decades. The Italian caesarean birth rate (38%) is among the highest in the world. Could be birth at home as a public model of care a superior alternative to current practices? This paper focuses on the experience of the Emilia-Romagna region, where the National Heal...
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...
