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

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