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Where there is no midwife : birth and loss in rural India / Sarah Pinto.
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- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Pinto, Sarah, 1973-
- Series:
- Fertility, reproduction, and sexuality ; v. 10.
- Fertility, reproduction, and sexuality ; v. 10
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Childbirth--India.
- Childbirth.
- Rural health--India.
- Rural health.
- India.
- Physical Description:
- xi, 330 pages ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Berghahn Books, [2008]
- Contents:
- Work : where there is no midwife
- Bodies : the poisonous lotus
- Medicine : development without institutions
- Seeing : visuality in pregnancy
- Dying : in the big, big hands of god
- Ideals : ciphers of tradition
- Talk : casting desire
- Epilogue.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [302]-319) and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Hazel M. Hussong Fund.
- ISBN:
- 1845453107
- 9781845453107
- OCLC:
- 77503886
- Publisher Number:
- 99934989371
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