Patient Citizens, Immigrant Mothers: Mexican Women, Public Prenatal Care, and the Birth Weight Paradox

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Patient Citizens, Immigrant Mothers Critical Issues in Health and Medicine Edited by Rima D. Apple, University of Wisconsin–Madison, and Janet Golden, Rutgers University, Camden Growing criticism of the U.S. health care system is coming from consumers, politicians, the media, activists, and health care professionals. Critical Issues in Health and Medicine is a collection of books that explores these contemporary dilemmas from a variety of perspectives, among them political, legal, historical, sociological, and comparative, and with attention to crucial dimensions such as race, gender, ethnicity, sexuality, and culture. For a list of titles in the series, see the last page of the book. Rutgers University Press New Brunswick, New Jersey, and London Patient Citizens, Immigrant Mothers Mexican Women, Public Prenatal Care, and the Birth-Weight Paradox Alyshia Gálvez Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Gálvez, Alyshia. Patient citizens, immigrant mothers : Mexican women, public prenatal care, and the birth-weight paradox / Alyshia Gálvez. p. cm. — (Critical issues in health and medicine) Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978–0–8135–5141–8 (hardcover : alk. paper) — ISBN 978–0–8135–5142–5 (pbk. : alk. paper) 1. Women—Mexico—Social conditions. 2. Women immigrants—United States—Social conditions. 3. Prenatal care—United States. 4. Childbirth—United States—Cross-cultural studies. I. Title. HQ1462.G35 2011 306.874⬘30896872073—dc22 2011001050 A British Cataloging-in-Publication record for this book is available from the British Library. Copyright © 2011 by Alyshia Gálvez All rights reserved No part of this book may be reproduced or utilized in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without written permission from the publisher. Please contact Rutgers University Press, 100 Joyce Kilmer Avenue, Piscataway, NJ 08854–8099. The only exception to this prohibition is “fair use” as defined by U.S. copyright law. Visit our Web site: http://rutgerspress.rutgers.edu Manufactured in the United States of America For Lázaro, Elías, and Carlos, always ...