Reproductive Agency, Medicine and the State

Cultural Transformations in Childbearing
1. Auflage 2004
ISBN: 978-1-57181-648-1
Verlag: Berghahn Books

Buch, Englisch, Band 3, 256 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 538 g

Reihe: Fertility, Reproduction and Sexuality: Social and Cultural Perspectives

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Unnithan-Kumar, Maya

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Vorklinische Medizin: Grundlagenfächer Reproduktionsmedizin

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Figures and Tables

Preface and Acknowledgements

Introduction: Reproductive Agency, Medicine and the State

Maya Unnithan-Kumar

Chapter 1. Attitudes to Genetic Diagnosis and to the use of Medical Technologies in Pregnancy: Some British Pakistani Perspectives

Alison Shaw

Chapter 2. Localising a Brave New World: New Reproductive Technologies and the Politics of Fertility in Contemporary Sri Lanka

Bob Simpson

Chapter 3. Conception Technologies, Local Healers and Negotiations around Childbearing in Rajasthan

Maya Unnithan-Kumar

Chapter 4. Programmes of Gamete Donation: Strategies in (Private) Clinics of Assisted Conception

Monica M. E. Bonaccorso

Chapter 5. Women, Doctors and Pain

William Stones

Chapter 6. Labour, Privatisation, and Class: Middle-Class Women’s Experience of Changing Hospital Births in Calcutta

Henrike Donner

Chapter 7. In Search of Closure for Quinacrine: Science and Politics in Contexts of Uncertainty and Inequality

Asha George

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

Chapter 9. ‘And Never the Twain Shall Meet’: Reproductive Health Policies in the Islamic Republic of Iran

Soraya Tremayne

Chapter 10. Women in Fertility Studies and In Situ

Tulsi Patel

Chapter 11. Heteronomous Women? Hidden Assumptions in the Demography of Women

Sumi Madhok

Notes on Contributors

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Unnithan-Kumar, Maya
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).

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).