Reproductive agency, medicine and the state : cultural transformations in childbearing /
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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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Berghahn Books,
2004.
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| Series: | Fertility, reproduction, and sexuality ;
v. 3. |
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Table of Contents:
- Attitudes to genetic diagnosis and to the use of medical technologies in pregnancy: some British Pakistani perspectives / Alison Shaw
- Localising a brave new world: new reproductive technologies and the politics of fertility in contemporary Sri Lanka / Bob Simpson
- Conception technologies, local healers and negotiations around childbearing in Rajasthan / Maya Unnithan-Kumar
- Programmes of gamete donation: strategies in (private) clinics of assisted conception / Monica M.E. Bonaccorse
- Women, doctors and pain / William Stones
- Labour, privatisation, and class: middle-class women's experience of changing hospital births in Calcutta / Henrike Donner
- In search of closure for Quinacrine: science and politics in contexts of uncertainty and inequality / Asha George
- 'She has a tender body': postpartum morbidity and care during Bananthana in rural South India / Asha Kilaru [and others]
- 'And never the twain shall meet': reproductive health policies in the Islamic republic of Iran / Soraya Tremayne
- Women in fertility studies and In Situ / Tulsi Patel
- Heteronomous women? hidden assumptions in the demography of women / Sumi Madhok.