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Ethnography of fertility and birth / edited by Carol P. MacCormack.
LIBRA GN482.1 .E85 1982
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- 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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