The anthropology of pregnancy loss : comparative studies in miscarriage, stillbirth and neo-natal death /: comparative studies in miscarriage, stillbirth and neo-natal death. (2020)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Roseanne Cecil.
• Editors: Cecil, Rosanne, 1955-
• Contents: Contents: R. Cecil, Introduction: An Insignificant Event? Literary and Anthropological Perspectives on Pregnancy Loss -- P. Jeffery and R. Jeffery, Delayed Periods and Falling Babies: The Ethnophysiology and Politics of Pregnancy Loss in Rural North India -- E. Sobo, Cultural Explanations for Pregnancy Loss in Rural Jamaica -- A. Winkvist, Water Spirits, Medicinemen and Witches: Avenues to Successful Reproduction among the Abelam, Papua New Guinea -- J.A.R. Wembah-Rashid, Explaining Pregnancy Loss in Matrilineal Southeastern Tanzania -- O.M. Njikam Savage, 'Children of the Rope' and Other Aspects of Pregnancy Loss in Cameroon -- M. DeLuca and P.W. Leslie, Variation in Risk of Pregnancy Loss -- L.L. Layne, 'Never Such Innocence Again': Irony, Nature, and Technoscience in Narratives of Pregnancy Loss -- B. Chalmers, Cultural Variations in South African Women's Experiences of Miscarriage: Implications for Clinical Care -- R. Cecil, Memories of Pregnancy Loss: Recollections of Elderly Women in Northern Ireland -- M. Jackson, 'Something More Than Blood': Conflicting Accounts of Pregnancy Loss in 18th-Century England
• Edition: 1st
• Publisher Details: London : Routledge
• Publication Date: 2020
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 618.39; Miscarriage -- Cross-cultural studies; Stillbirth -- Cross-cultural studies; Newborn infants -- Death -- Cross-cultural studies
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781000323849
• Related ISBNs: 9781000325638; 9781000322156; 9781003135722
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Description based on CIP data; resource not viewed.
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