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Ethnography of fertility and birth / edited by Carol P. MacCormack.

LIBRA GN482.1 .E85 1982
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Format:
Book
Contributor:
MacCormack, Carol P.
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Childbirth--Social aspects.
Childbirth.
Fertility, Human.
Traditional medicine.
Physical Description:
x, 293 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Place of Publication:
London ; New York : Academic Press, 1982.
Contents:
Biological, cultural, and social adaptation in human fertility and birth / C.P. MacCormack
Sexual power and fertility in Sri Lanka / D.B. McGilvray
Enga birth, maturation, and survival B. Gray
Health, fertility, and birth in Moyamba District, Sierra Leone / C.P. MacCormack
Interpretations of infertility / V. Ebin
Folk medicine and fertility / U. Maclean
The social context of birth / S. Kitzinger
Childbirth and change / S. Cosminsky
Pregnancy and birth rites of passage for two groups of women in Britain / H. Homans
Childbirth in a scientific and industrial society /A.D. Jones and C. Dougherty.
Notes:
Includes bibliographies and index.
ISBN:
0124635504
OCLC:
8546861

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