Reproductive agency, medicine, and the state : cultural transformations in childbearing /
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| Imprint: | New York : Berghahn Books, 2004. |
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| Description: | vi, 255 p. ; 24 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Fertility, reproduction, and sexuality ; v. 3 |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/5717045 |
Table of Contents:
- List of Figures and Tables
- Preface and Acknowledgements
- Introduction: Reproductive Agency, Medicine and the State
- 1. Attitudes to Genetic Diagnosis and to the use of Medical Technologies in Pregnancy: Some British Pakistani Perspectives
- 2. Localising a Brave New World: New Reproductive Technologies and the Politics of Fertility in Contemporary Sri Lanka
- 3. Conception Technologies, Local Healers and Negotiations around Childbearing in Rajasthan
- 4. Programmes of Gamete Donation: Strategies in (Private) Clinics of Assisted Conception
- 5. Women, Doctors and Pain
- 6. Labour, Privatisation, and Class: Middle-Class Women's Experience of Changing Hospital Births in Calcutta
- 7. In Search of Closure for Quinacrine: Science and Politics in Contexts of Uncertainty and Inequality
- 8. 'She Has a Tender Body': Postpartum Morbidity and Care during Bananthana in Rural South India
- 9. 'And Never the Twain Shall Mect': Reproductive Health Policies in the Islamic Republic of Iran
- 10. Women in Fertility Studies and In Situ
- 11. Heteronomous Women? Hidden Assumptions in the Demography of Women
- Notes on Contributors
- Index
