Birth on the threshold childbirth and modernity in South India /

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Autor principal: Van Hollen, Cecilia Coale
Autor Corporativo: ebrary, Inc
Formato: Recurso Electrónico livro electrónico
Idioma:inglês
Publicado em: Berkeley : University of California Press, c2003.
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Sumário:
  • The professionalization of obstetrics in colonial India: The problems of childbirth in colonial discourse
  • Maternal and child health services in the postcolonial era
  • Bangles of neem, bangles of gold: pregnant women as auspicious burdens
  • Invoking vali: painful technologies of birth
  • Moving targets: the routinization of IUD insertions in public maternity wards
  • Baby friendly hospitals and bad mothers: maneuvering development during the postpartum period
  • Conclusion: reproductive rights, choices, and resistance.