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Where there is no midwife: birth and loss in rural India

Sarah Pinto 2008 © Berghahn Books
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  • ACLS Fellows’ Publications
ISBN(s)
  • 9781845453107 (hardcover)
  • 9780857451538 (paper)
  • 9780857450333 (ebook)
Subject
  • Gender Studies
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  • Table of Contents

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  • 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)
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Journal AbbreviationLabelURL
JRAI 15.2 (Jun. 2009): 437-438 http://www.jstor.org/stable/20527741
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