Reproductive Agency, Medicine and the State

Cultural Transformations in Childbearing
Herausgeber: Unnithan-Kumar, Maya

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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, childbirth and the postpartum period) on the one hand and attitudes, medical technologies and state health policies in diverse cultural contexts on the other.

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Produktdetails

• Fertility, Reproduction and Sexuality: Social and Cultural P Nr.3
• Verlag: Berghahn Books
• Seitenzahl: 264
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Oktober 2004
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 538g
• ISBN-13: 9781571816481
• ISBN-10: 1571816488
• Artikelnr.: 44841355

Autorenporträt

Maya Unnithan-Kumar is Senior Lecturer in Anthropology at the University of Sussex. Her research in the early 1990s focused on kinship and gender relations in northwest India and appeared as Identity, Gender and Poverty (Berghahn Books 1997).

Inhaltsangabe

List of Figures and Tables
Preface and Acknowledgements
Introduction: Reproductive Agency, Medicine and the State
Maya Unnithan-Kumar
Chapter 1. Attitudes to Genetic Diagnosis and to the use of Medical
Technologies in Pregnancy: Some British Pakistani Perspectives
Alison Shaw
Chapter 2. Localising a Brave New World: New Reproductive Technologies and
the Politics of Fertility in Contemporary Sri Lanka
Bob Simpson
Chapter 3. Conception Technologies, Local Healers and Negotiations around
Childbearing in Rajasthan
Maya Unnithan-Kumar
Chapter 4. Programmes of Gamete Donation: Strategies in (Private) Clinics
of Assisted Conception
Monica M. E. Bonaccorso
Chapter 5. Women, Doctors and Pain
William Stones
Chapter 6. Labour, Privatisation, and Class: Middle-Class Women's
Experience of Changing Hospital Births in Calcutta
Henrike Donner
Chapter 7. In Search of Closure for Quinacrine: Science and Politics in
Contexts of Uncertainty and Inequality
Asha George
Chapter 8. 'She Has a Tender Body': Postpartum Morbidity and Care during
Bananthana in Rural South India
Asha Kilaru, Zoe Matthews, Jayashree Ramakrishna, Shanti Mahendra and
Saraswathy Ganapathy
Chapter 9. 'And Never the Twain Shall Meet': Reproductive Health Policies
in the Islamic Republic of Iran
Soraya Tremayne
Chapter 10. Women in Fertility Studies and In Situ
Tulsi Patel
Chapter 11. Heteronomous Women? Hidden Assumptions in the Demography of
Women
Sumi Madhok
Notes on Contributors
Index