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Reproductive agency, medicine and the state : cultural transformations in childbearing
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- Creator
- edited by Maya Unnithan-Kumar
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Contributors
- Publication
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- New York : Berghahn Books, 2004
- Physical Details
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- vi, 255 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 1782388621, 1845450442, 1571816488, 9781845450441, 9781571816481, 9781782388623
- OCLC
- ocm53434629, ocn946048140
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- 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, ...[et al.] -- '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
Subjects
- Human reproductive technology -- Social aspects -- Cross-cultural studies.
- Human reproductive technology -- Government policy -- Cross-cultural studies.
- Human reproductive technology -- Public opinion -- Cross-cultural studies.
- Childbirth -- Social aspects -- Cross-cultural studies.
- Fertility, Human -- Social aspects -- Cross-cultural studies.
- Reproductive Techniques.
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- Anthropology, Cultural.
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- Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice.
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- Public Policy.
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- Social Change.
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