Reproductive Agency, Medicine and the State: Cultural Transformations in Childbearing

Published by Berghahn Books 2004

Reproductive Agency, Medicine and the State

Cultural Transformations in Childbearing

Edited by: Maya Unnithan-Kumar

Volume 3 in the series Fertility, Reproduction and Sexuality: Social and Cultural Perspectives

https://doi.org/10.1515/9781782388623

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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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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).

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
CONTENTS Publicly Available Download PDF	v
LIST OF FIGURES AND TABLES Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
PREFACE AND ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Publicly Available Download PDF	viii
INTRODUCTION: REPRODUCTIVE AGENCY, MEDICINE AND THE STATE Maya Unnithan-Kumar Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
CHAPTER 1 ATTITUDES TO GENETIC DIAGNOSIS AND TO THE USE OF MEDICAL TECHNOLOGIES IN PREGNANCY: SOME BRITISH PAKISTANI PERSPECTIVES Alison Shaw Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	25
CHAPTER 2 LOCALISING A BRAVE NEW WORLD: NEW REPRODUCTIVE TECHNOLOGIES AND THE POLITICS OF FERTILITY IN CONTEMPORARY SRI LANKA Bob Simpson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	43
CHAPTER 3 CONCEPTION TECHNOLOGIES, LOCAL HEALERS AND NEGOTIATIONS AROUND CHILDBEARING IN RAJASTHAN Maya Unnithan-Kumar Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	59
CHAPTER 4 PROGRAMMES OF GAMETE DONATION: STRATEGIES IN (PRIVATE) CLINICS OF ASSISTED CONCEPTION Monica M. E. Bonaccorso Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	83
CHAPTER 5 WOMEN, DOCTORS AND PAIN William Stones Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	103
CHAPTER 6 LABOUR, PRIVATISATION AND CLASS: MIDDLE-CLASS WOMEN’S EXPERIENCE OF CHANGING HOSPITAL BIRTHS IN CALCUTTA Henrike Donner Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	113
CHAPTER 7 IN SEARCH OF CLOSURE FOR QUINACRINE: SCIENCE AND POLITICS IN CONTEXTS OF UNCERTAINTY AND INEQUALITY Asha George Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	137
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 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	161
CHAPTER 9 ‘AND NEVER THE TWAIN SHALL MEET’: REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH POLICIES IN THE ISLAMIC REPUBLIC OF IRAN Soraya Tremayne Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	181
CHAPTER 10 WOMEN IN FERTILITY STUDIES AND IN SITU Tulsi Patel Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	203
CHAPTER 11 HETERONOMOUS WOMEN? HIDDEN ASSUMPTIONS IN THE DEMOGRAPHY OF WOMEN Sumi Madhok Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	223
NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	245
INDEX Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	249

Language: English
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 256
Keywords: Medical Anthropology; Gender Studies and Sexuality

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Published: October 1, 2004
ISBN: 9781782388623