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Reproductive agency, medicine and the state: cultural transformations in childbearing
Maya Unnithan-Kumar
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Frontmatter
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List of Figures and Tables (page vii)
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Preface and Acknowledgements (page viii)
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Introduction: Reproductive Agency, Medicine and the State (Maya Unnithan-Kumar, page 1)
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1. Attitudes to Genetic Diagnosis and to the use of Medical Technologies in Pregnancy: Some British Pakistani Perspectives (Alison Shaw, page 25)
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2. Localising a Brave New World: New Reproductive Technologies and the Politics of Fertility in Contemporary Sri Lanka (Bob Simpson, page 43)
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3. Conception Technologies, Local Healers and Negotiations around Childbearing in Rajasthan (Maya Unnithan-Kumar, page 59)
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4. Programmes of Gamete Donation: Strategies in (Private) Clinics of Assisted Conception (Monica M. E. Bonaccorso, page 83)
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5. Women, Doctors and Pain (William Stones, page 103)
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6. Labour, Privatisation, and Class: Middle-Class Women's Experience of Changing Hospital Births in Calcutta (Henrike Donner, page 113)
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7. In Search of Closure for Quinacrine: Science and Politics in Contexts of Uncertainty and Inequality (Asha George, page 137)
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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, page 161)
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9. 'And Never the Twain Shall Meet': Reproductive Health Policies in the Islamic Republic of Iran (Soraya Tremayne, page 181)
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10. Women in Fertility Studies and In Situ (Tulsi Patel, page 203)
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11. Heteronomous Women? Hidden Assumptions in the Demography of Women (Sumi Madhok, page 223)
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Notes on Contributors (page 245)
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Index (page 249)
Journal Abbreviation | Label | URL |
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TC | 46.3 (July 2005): 692-693 | http://www.jstor.org/stable/40060950 |
Citable Link
Published: 2006
Publisher: Berghahn Books
- 9781782388623 (ebook)
- 9781571816481 (hardcover)
- 9781845450441 (paper)