Table of Contents
- Frontmatter
- Note on Transliterations (page viii)
- Acknowledgments (page ix)
- Introduction (page 1)
- 1. Work: Where There Is No Midwife (page 29)
- 2. Bodies: The Poisonous Lotus (page 72)
- 3. Medicine: Development Without Institutions (page 106)
- 4. Seeing: Visuality in Pregnancy (page 141)
- 5. Dying: In the Big, Big Hands of God (page 178)
- 6. Ideals: Ciphers of Tradition (page 211)
- 7. Talk: Casting Desire (page 244)
- Epilogue (page 291)
- Notes (page 296)
- Works Cited (page 302)
- Index (page 321)