Quest for conception : gender, infertility, and Egyptian medical traditions /
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| Author / Creator: | Inhorn, Marcia C., 1957- |
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| Imprint: | Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, c1994. |
| Description: | xxvii, 441 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/2612299 |
Table of Contents:
- List of Illustrations
- List of Abbreviations
- Acknowledgments
- Notes on Transliteration
- Preface: Hind's Story
- Part 1. Problem, Place, and Procreative Theory
- Chapter 1.. The Infertility Problem in Egypt
- Chapter 2.. Ancient Alexandria and Its Modern Poor
- Chapter 3.. Past and Present in Theories of Procreation
- Part 2. Ethnogynecology
- Chapter 4.. Healers, Herbalists, and Holy Ones
- Chapter 5.. Kabsa and Threatened Fertility
- Chapter 6.. From Humidity to Sorcery
- Chapter 7.. Divinity, Profanity, and Pilgrimage
- Part 3. Biogynecology
- Chapter 8.. Biomedical Bodies
- Chapter 9.. Untherapeutic Therapeutics
- Chapter 10.. The Injection of Spermatic Animals
- Chapter 11.. Babies of the Tubes
- Chapter 12.. Futures for the Infertile
- Appendix 1.. Fieldwork
- Appendix 2.. Informants
- Notes
- Glossary of Arabic Terms
- References
- Index
