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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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • LIST OF FIGURES AND TABLES
  • PREFACE AND ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
  • INTRODUCTION: REPRODUCTIVE AGENCY, MEDICINE AND THE STATE
  • CHAPTER 1 ATTITUDES TO GENETIC DIAGNOSIS AND TO THE USE OF MEDICAL TECHNOLOGIES IN PREGNANCY: SOME BRITISH PAKISTANI PERSPECTIVES
  • CHAPTER 2 LOCALISING A BRAVE NEW WORLD: NEW REPRODUCTIVE TECHNOLOGIES AND THE POLITICS OF FERTILITY IN CONTEMPORARY SRI LANKA
  • CHAPTER 3 CONCEPTION TECHNOLOGIES, LOCAL HEALERS AND NEGOTIATIONS AROUND CHILDBEARING IN RAJASTHAN
  • CHAPTER 4 PROGRAMMES OF GAMETE DONATION: STRATEGIES IN (PRIVATE) CLINICS OF ASSISTED CONCEPTION
  • CHAPTER 5 WOMEN, DOCTORS AND PAIN
  • CHAPTER 6 LABOUR, PRIVATISATION AND CLASS: MIDDLE-CLASS WOMEN’S EXPERIENCE OF CHANGING HOSPITAL BIRTHS IN CALCUTTA
  • CHAPTER 7 IN SEARCH OF CLOSURE FOR QUINACRINE: SCIENCE AND POLITICS IN CONTEXTS OF UNCERTAINTY AND INEQUALITY
  • CHAPTER 8 ‘SHE HAS A TENDER BODY’: POSTPARTUM MORBIDITY AND CARE DURING BANANTHANA IN RURAL SOUTH INDIA
  • CHAPTER 9 ‘AND NEVER THE TWAIN SHALL MEET’: REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH POLICIES IN THE ISLAMIC REPUBLIC OF IRAN
  • CHAPTER 10 WOMEN IN FERTILITY STUDIES AND IN SITU
  • CHAPTER 11 HETERONOMOUS WOMEN? HIDDEN ASSUMPTIONS IN THE DEMOGRAPHY OF WOMEN
  • NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS
  • INDEX

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