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Author:   Maya Unnithan-Kumar
Publisher:   Berghahn Books, Incorporated
Imprint:   Berghahn Books, Incorporated
Volume:   v. 3
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.90cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.490kg
ISBN:  

9781571816481

ISBN 10:   1571816488
Pages:   256
Publication Date:   01 October 2004
Audience:   General/trade ,  Professional and scholarly ,  General ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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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

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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).

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