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Ethnography of fertility and birth / edited by Carol P. MacCormack.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Childbirth--Social aspects.
- Childbirth.
- Fertility, Human.
- Traditional medicine.
- Labor, Obstetric.
- Anthropology, Cultural.
- Cross-Cultural Comparison.
- Fertility.
- Medical Subjects:
- Labor, Obstetric.
- Anthropology, Cultural.
- Cross-Cultural Comparison.
- Fertility.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 283 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- Edition:
- Second edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Prospect Heights, Ill. : Waveland Press, [1994]
- Contents:
- Biological, cultural, and social meanings of fertility and birth / C.P. MacCormack
- Sexual power and fertility in Sri Lanka / D.B. McGilvray
- Enga birth, maturation, and survival / B.M. 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 as 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 bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0881338176
- 9780881338171
- OCLC:
- 32225097
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