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Intro; Series Editorial Advisory Board; Foreword; The Reproductive and Maternal Health of Indigenous Women Is a Human Right; Acknowledgments; Contents; About the Contributors and Editor; Part I: Reproductive and Maternal Health Among Indigenous Women of Mexico & Central America; 1: Introduction to Indigenous Women and Their Pregnancies: Misunderstood, Stigmatized, and at Risk; 1.1 Maternal Death in Developing Countries; 1.2 Indigenous People; 1.3 Maternal Death Among Indigenous Women in Mexico and Central America
1.4 A Multidisciplinary Approach to Improving Maternal Survival Among Indigenous WomenReferences; 2: Aztec Pregnancy: Archaeological and Cultural Foundations for Motherhood and Childbearing in Ancient Mesoamerica; 2.1 Introduction; 2.2 The Aztecs; 2.3 The Florentine Codex and Friar Bernardino de Sahagún; 2.4 Motherhood and Fertility Deities of the Aztecs; 2.4.1 Tlazolteotl: A Goddess of Midwives; 2.4.2 Chalchiuhtlicue: Patron Goddess of Childbirth; 2.4.3 Cihuacoatl: Goddess of Midwives and the Sweat Bath; 2.4.4 Coatlicue: Patron Goddess of Childbirth
2.4.5 Tzitzimitl: Goddess of Fertility2.4.6 Ixtlilton: God of Medicine and Healing; 2.5 Aztec Pregnancy and the Tlamatlquiticitl (Midwife); 2.6 The Birth of the Baby; 2.7 Multiple Births; 2.8 Fetal Death and Abortion; 2.9 Maternal Death; 2.10 Cihuateteo: Goddesses of Women Dying During Childbirth; References; 3: Hypertensive Mothers, Obstetric Hemorrhage, and Infections: Biomedical Aspects of Maternal Death Among Indigenous Women in Mexico and Central America; 3.1 Introduction; 3.2 The Hypertensive Diseases of Pregnancy: Preeclampsia and Eclampsia; 3.2.1 Epidemiology
3.2.2 Pathophysiology3.2.3 The Placenta and Preeclampsia; 3.2.4 Decidua; 3.2.5 Kidneys; 3.2.6 Liver; 3.2.7 Central Nervous System; 3.2.8 Hypertensive Diseases of Pregnancy in Indigenous Women in Mexico and Central America; 3.2.8.1 Calcium Supplementation and Preeclampsia in Mayan Women in Guatemala; 3.2.8.2 Prepregnancy Body Mass Index and Preeclampsia in Maya-Mestizo Women in Mexico; 3.2.8.3 Nitrous Oxide Synthase Genotype and Preeclampsia in Maya-Mestizo Women in Mexico; 3.2.8.4 Isozyme Polymorphisms and Preeclampsia in Maya-Mestizo Women in Mexico
1.4 A Multidisciplinary Approach to Improving Maternal Survival Among Indigenous WomenReferences; 2: Aztec Pregnancy: Archaeological and Cultural Foundations for Motherhood and Childbearing in Ancient Mesoamerica; 2.1 Introduction; 2.2 The Aztecs; 2.3 The Florentine Codex and Friar Bernardino de Sahagún; 2.4 Motherhood and Fertility Deities of the Aztecs; 2.4.1 Tlazolteotl: A Goddess of Midwives; 2.4.2 Chalchiuhtlicue: Patron Goddess of Childbirth; 2.4.3 Cihuacoatl: Goddess of Midwives and the Sweat Bath; 2.4.4 Coatlicue: Patron Goddess of Childbirth
2.4.5 Tzitzimitl: Goddess of Fertility2.4.6 Ixtlilton: God of Medicine and Healing; 2.5 Aztec Pregnancy and the Tlamatlquiticitl (Midwife); 2.6 The Birth of the Baby; 2.7 Multiple Births; 2.8 Fetal Death and Abortion; 2.9 Maternal Death; 2.10 Cihuateteo: Goddesses of Women Dying During Childbirth; References; 3: Hypertensive Mothers, Obstetric Hemorrhage, and Infections: Biomedical Aspects of Maternal Death Among Indigenous Women in Mexico and Central America; 3.1 Introduction; 3.2 The Hypertensive Diseases of Pregnancy: Preeclampsia and Eclampsia; 3.2.1 Epidemiology
3.2.2 Pathophysiology3.2.3 The Placenta and Preeclampsia; 3.2.4 Decidua; 3.2.5 Kidneys; 3.2.6 Liver; 3.2.7 Central Nervous System; 3.2.8 Hypertensive Diseases of Pregnancy in Indigenous Women in Mexico and Central America; 3.2.8.1 Calcium Supplementation and Preeclampsia in Mayan Women in Guatemala; 3.2.8.2 Prepregnancy Body Mass Index and Preeclampsia in Maya-Mestizo Women in Mexico; 3.2.8.3 Nitrous Oxide Synthase Genotype and Preeclampsia in Maya-Mestizo Women in Mexico; 3.2.8.4 Isozyme Polymorphisms and Preeclampsia in Maya-Mestizo Women in Mexico