Embodying Culture : : Pregnancy in Japan and Israel / / Tsipy Ivry.
Embodying Culture is an ethnographically grounded exploration of pregnancy in two different cultures-Japan and Israel-both of which medicalize pregnancy. Tsipy Ivry focuses on "low-risk" or "normal" pregnancies, using cultural comparison to explore the complex relations among eth...
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Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Rutgers University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2013 |
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Place / Publishing House: | New Brunswick, NJ : : Rutgers University Press, , [2009] ©2009 |
Year of Publication: | 2009 |
Language: | English |
Series: | Studies in Medical Anthropology
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (312 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Pregnancy, Cultural Comparison, Multisited Ethnographies
- Part One. The Doctoring of Pregnancy
- Part Two. Experiencing Pregnancy
- Part Three. Embodying Culture: Toward an Anthropology of Pregnancy
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index