Fouzieyha Towghi

Baloch Midwives (eBook, PDF)

Contesting Global Perceptions of Midwifery in Balochistan, Pakistan

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Produktbeschreibung

As the first major ethnography of Baloch midwives in Pakistan, this book draws on long-term ethnographic research in Balochistan province, showing how dhinabogs/dheenabogs (Baloch midwives ranging in age from about 30 to 80) and their dhinabogiri (midwifery) aid women and their kin through labor and postpartum recovery.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 344
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. März 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781040001165
• Artikelnr.: 70068137

Autorenporträt

Fouzieyha Towghi is a medical anthropologist and an honorary academic in the School of Archaeology and Anthropology, Australian National University, and the recipient of the 2015 Rudolph Virchow Professional Award from the Society for Medical Anthropology for her 2014 article, "Normalizing Off-Label Experiments and the Pharmaceuticalization of Homebirths in Pakistan." Drawing from over ten years of ethnographic research, her scholarship has focused on the politics of reproduction, medicine, science, and biomedical technologies and their implications for women's health and lives in South Asia.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction 1. Balochistan and the Panjg
r District: Background and Context 2. Using Biomedicine to Secure the Maternal Body from Traditional Midwifery 3. Searching for the D
: Finding Dh
nabog, Kaww
s, and Balluks 4. Haunted by Ingrez
Dhaw
5. Baloch
versus Ingrez
Dhaw
in the Politics of Births, Babies, and Bad Injections 6. Un-Enunciated Experiments in the Guise of Humanitarian Care Conclusion: Forms and Ethics of Baloch Midwifery Index