Carla Makhlouf Obermeyer (ed.)

Cultural Perspectives on Reproductive Health

Herausgeber: Makhlouf Obermeyer, Carla

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

By analysing behaviour from the perspective of the actors themselves, they show the relevance of local notions for understanding the factors that constitute risks for reproductive ill-health, including conditions of material deprivation, constraints in seeking care, and inappropriate use of therapies and technologies. "Cultural Perspectives on Reproductive Health" illustrates complex processes of negotiation, adaptation, and manipulation in the formulation of ideas and policies related to reproductive health through analyses of such topics as the state's discourse on population, religious constraints on abortion care, professional and legal policies on reproductive technologies, health professionals' response to violence, and the dilemmas that emerge from the new diagnostic and genetic techniques. It also invites reflection on the societal construction of rights across cultures and on the place of cultural explanations in analyses of reproductive health.

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This volume explores the connections between reproductive health and culture, focusing on two broad questions: How does culture shape the ways in which reproductive events are associated with health outcomes? And to what extent does the notion of reproductive health have relevance in different circumstances and cultures?

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 344
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. Oktober 2001
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 176mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 630g
• ISBN-13: 9780199246892
• ISBN-10: 0199246890
• Artikelnr.: 20950256

Autorenporträt

Carla Makhlouf Obermeyer is Associate Professor of Population and Anthropology in the Department of Population and International Health at Harvard University. She is currently on leave from Harvard and working as a scientist with the World Health Organization on research and evidence related to women's health.

Inhaltsangabe

* 1. PROFESSIONAL AND LAY MODELS OF REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH, ILLNESS AND
THERAPY
* 2: Inge Hutter: NUTRITION AND REPRODUCTION: THE SOCIO-CULTURAL
CONTEXT OF FOOD BEHAVIOR IN RURAL SOUTH INDIA
* 3: Nancy Luke, Ina Warriner, and Susan Watkins: 'RARIU DOESN'T RHYME
WITH WESTERN MEDICINE': LAY BELIEFS AND ILLNESS NETWORKS IN KENYA
* 4: Marcia Inhorn: OBSTACLES TO INFERTILITY TREATMENT IN EGYPT:
CULTURAL AND CLASS-BASED CONSTRAINTS TO UTILIZATION OF NEW
REPRODUCTIVE TECHNOLOGIES
* 5: Mark Nichter: VULNERABILITY, PROPHYLACTIC ANTIBIOTIC USE, HARM
REDUCTION, AND THE MISGUIDED APPROPRIATION OF MEDICAL RESOURCES: THE
CASE OF STDS IN SOUTHEAST ASIA
* 2. DISCOURSE, PRACTICE, AND REPRODUCTIVE CHOICES
* 7: Homa Hoodfar: REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH COUNSELING IN THE ISLAMIC
REPUBLIC OF IRAN: THE ROLE OF WOMEN MULLAHS
* 8: Dale Huntington: ABORTION IN EGYPT: OFFICIAL CONSTRAINTS AND
POPULAR PRACTICES
* 9: Deborah James and Carol E. Kaufman: THE REPRODUCTIVE CONSEQUENCES
OF SHIFTING ETHNIC IDENTITY IN SOUTH AFRICA
* 10: Nora Jacobson: CRITICAL PERSPECTIVES ON THE MAKING OF WOMEN'S
HEALTH POLICY: THE CASE OF SILICONE BREAST IMPLANTS IN THE UNITED
STATES
* 3. CULTURE, REPRODUCTION, AND RIGHTS
* 12: Margaret Lock: ELIMINATING STIGMATIZATION: APPLICATIONS OF THE
NEW GENETICS IN JAPAN
* 13: Rosalind P. Petchesky: RE-THEORIZING REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH AND
RIGHTS IN THE LIGHT OF FEMINIST CROSS-CULTURAL RESEARCH
* 14: Didier Fassin: CULTURALISM AS IDEOLOGY