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This is a rich ethnography of traditional midwifery and medicalized reproduction as globalization touches an island.Focusing on Rhodes, an island that blends continuity with the past and rapid social change in often unexpected ways, the author paints a detailed portrait of how a longstanding system of """"local"""" gynecological and obstetrical knowledge under the control of women was rapidly displaced in the postwar period, and how the technologically-intensive biomedical model that took its place in turn assumed its own distinctive signature.

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This book, written brilliantly and engagingly, is destined to become one of the primary works in the anthropology of reproduction. It is all about cultural uniqueness in the face of globalization, how Greeks so value modernity that they have given up a lot that was Greek in obtaining it, yet the way they 'do' modernity is nevertheless uniquely Greek.<br>Robbie Davis-Floyd

This book, written brilliantly and engagingly, is destined to become one of the primary works in the anthropology of reproduction. It is all about cultural uniqueness in the face of globalization, how Greeks so value modernity that they have given up a lot that was Greek in obtaining it, yet the way they 'do' modernity is nevertheless uniquely Greek.<br>--Robbie Davis-Floyd

This book, written brilliantly and engagingly, is destined to become one of the primary works in the anthropology of reproduction. It is all about cultural uniqueness in the face of globalization, how Greeks so value modernity that they have given up a lot that was Greek in obtaining it, yet the way they 'do' modernity is nevertheless uniquely Greek. --Robbie Davis-Floyd

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Eugenia Georges, Associate Professor of Anthropology, Rice University, is the author of The Making of a Transnational Community: Migration, Development, and Cultural Change in the Dominican Republic.

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