Reproductive agency, medicine and the state : cultural transformations in childbearing /: cultural transformations in childbearing. (2004)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Maya Unnithan-Kumar.
• Other Names: Unnithan-Kumar, Maya, 1961-
• Contents: Attitudes to genetic diagnosis and to the use of medical technologies in pregnancy: some British Pakistani perspectives / Alison Shaw -- Localising a brave new world: new reproductive technologies and the politics of fertility in contemporary Sri Lanka / Bob Simpson -- Conception technologies, local healers and negotiations around childbearing in Rajasthan / Maya Unnithan-Kumar -- Programmes of gamete donation: strategies in (private) clinics of assisted conception / Monica M.E. Bonaccorse -- Women, doctors and pain / William Stones -- Labour, privatisation, and class: middle-class women's experience of changing hospital births in Calcutta / Henrike Donner -- In search of closure for Quinacrine: science and politics in contexts of uncertainty and inequality / Asha George -- 'She has a tender body': postpartum morbidity and care during Bananthana in rural South India / Asha Kilaru [and others] -- 'And never the twain shall meet': reproductive health policies in the Islamic republic of Iran / Soraya Tremayne -- Women in fertility studies and In Situ / Tulsi Patel -- Heteronomous women? hidden assumptions in the demography of women / Sumi Madhok.
• Publisher Details: New York : Berghahn Books
• Publication Date: 2004
• Extent: 1 online resource (vi, 255 pages), illustrations
• Subjects: 306.4/61; Human reproductive technology -- Social aspects -- Cross-cultural studies; Human reproductive technology -- Government policy -- Cross-cultural studies; Human reproductive technology -- Public opinion -- Cross-cultural studies; Childbirth -- Social aspects -- Cross-cultural studies; Fertility, Human -- Social aspects -- Cross-cultural studies; Childbirth -- Social aspects; Fertility, Human -- Social aspects; Human reproductive technology -- Government policy; Human reproductive technology -- Public opinion; Human reproductive technology -- Social aspects; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Cultural Policy; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Popular Culture; MEDICAL / Reproductive Medicine & Technology; Reproductive Techniques; Anthropology, Cultural; Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice; Public Policy; Social Change; Cross-cultural studies; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781782388623; 1782388621
• Related ISBNs: 1571816488; 9781571816481
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Print version record.
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.