Reproductive Agency, Medicine and the State : : Cultural Transformations in Childbearing /

Reproductive Agency, Medicine and the State : : Cultural Transformations in Childbearing / / ed. by Maya Unnithan-Kumar.

Recent years have seen many changes in human reproduction resulting from state and medical interventions in childbearing processes. Based on empirical work in a variety of societies and countries, this volume considers the relationship between reproductive processes (of fertility, pregnancy, childbi...

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MitwirkendeR:
Bonaccorso, Monica M. E.,
Donner, Henrike,
Ganapathy, Saraswathy,
George, Asha,
Kilaru, Asha,
Madhok, Sumi,
Mahendra, Shanti,
Matthews, Zoe,
Patel, Tulsi,
Ramakrishna, Jayashree,
Shaw, Alison,
Simpson, Bob,
Stones, William,
Tremayne, Soraya,
Unnithan-Kumar, Maya,
HerausgeberIn:
Unnithan-Kumar, Maya,
Place / Publishing House:New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2004]
©2004
Year of Publication:2004
Language:English
Series:Fertility, Reproduction and Sexuality: Social and Cultural Perspectives ; 3
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Physical Description:1 online resource (256 p.)
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505 0 0 |t Frontmatter --   |t CONTENTS --   |t LIST OF FIGURES AND TABLES --   |t PREFACE AND ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS --   |t INTRODUCTION: REPRODUCTIVE AGENCY, MEDICINE AND THE STATE --   |t CHAPTER 1 ATTITUDES TO GENETIC DIAGNOSIS AND TO THE USE OF MEDICAL TECHNOLOGIES IN PREGNANCY: SOME BRITISH PAKISTANI PERSPECTIVES --   |t CHAPTER 2 LOCALISING A BRAVE NEW WORLD: NEW REPRODUCTIVE TECHNOLOGIES AND THE POLITICS OF FERTILITY IN CONTEMPORARY SRI LANKA --   |t CHAPTER 3 CONCEPTION TECHNOLOGIES, LOCAL HEALERS AND NEGOTIATIONS AROUND CHILDBEARING IN RAJASTHAN --   |t CHAPTER 4 PROGRAMMES OF GAMETE DONATION: STRATEGIES IN (PRIVATE) CLINICS OF ASSISTED CONCEPTION --   |t CHAPTER 5 WOMEN, DOCTORS AND PAIN --   |t CHAPTER 6 LABOUR, PRIVATISATION AND CLASS: MIDDLE-CLASS WOMEN’S EXPERIENCE OF CHANGING HOSPITAL BIRTHS IN CALCUTTA --   |t CHAPTER 7 IN SEARCH OF CLOSURE FOR QUINACRINE: SCIENCE AND POLITICS IN CONTEXTS OF UNCERTAINTY AND INEQUALITY --   |t CHAPTER 8 ‘SHE HAS A TENDER BODY’: POSTPARTUM MORBIDITY AND CARE DURING BANANTHANA IN RURAL SOUTH INDIA --   |t CHAPTER 9 ‘AND NEVER THE TWAIN SHALL MEET’: REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH POLICIES IN THE ISLAMIC REPUBLIC OF IRAN --   |t CHAPTER 10 WOMEN IN FERTILITY STUDIES AND IN SITU --   |t CHAPTER 11 HETERONOMOUS WOMEN? HIDDEN ASSUMPTIONS IN THE DEMOGRAPHY OF WOMEN --   |t NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS --   |t INDEX 
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650 0 |a Childbirth  |x Social aspects  |v Cross-cultural studies. 
650 0 |a Ethnology. 
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650 0 |a Human reproductive technology  |x Public opinion  |v Cross-cultural studies. 
650 0 |a Human reproductive technology  |x Social aspects  |v Cross-cultural studies. 
650 0 |a Reproductive technology. 
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700 1 |a Kilaru, Asha,   |e contributor.  |4 ctb  |4 https://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ctb 
700 1 |a Madhok, Sumi,   |e contributor.  |4 ctb  |4 https://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ctb 
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700 1 |a Unnithan-Kumar, Maya,   |e contributor.  |4 ctb  |4 https://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ctb 
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