Abstract:The traditional Malay practices of pre and postnatal care have been fascinating to help understand women's health and reproductive role. Women within midwives and midwifery contexts made their status recognised back in the ancient practice. The ethnoscience methods about women's health have been the centre of discussion way back in the Aztec, Mayan and Egyptian civilisations, yet the topic never gets exhausted. The ethnographic research on midwives conducted in Terengganu in the 1980s and other new literature … Show more
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