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Reproductive Agency, Medicine and the State
Maya . Ed(S): Unnithan-Kumar
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Description for Reproductive Agency, Medicine and the State
Hardback. Considering the relationship between reproductive processes and attitudes, medical technologies and state health policies in diverse cultural contexts, this text discusses the relationship between local and global ideas, practices and policies on reproduction and health across the developing and post industrial worlds. Editor(s): Unnithan-Kumar, Maya. Series: Fertility, Reproduction & Sexuality. Num Pages: 4 figures, 4 tables. BIC Classification: JH; MB; MJT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 499.
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.
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Berghahn Books, Incorporated United States
Condition
New
Series
Fertility, Reproduction & Sexuality
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
Herndon, United States
ISBN
9781571816481
SKU
V9781571816481
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Ref
99-15
About Maya . Ed(S): Unnithan-Kumar
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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