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Maternity and reproductive health in Asian societies / edited by Pranee Liamputtong Rice and Lenore Manderson.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Human reproduction--Southeast Asia.
- Human reproduction.
- Child care--Southeast Asia.
- Child care.
- Maternal health services--Southeast Asia.
- Maternal health services.
- Obstetrics--Southeast Asia.
- Obstetrics.
- Sexual health--Southeast Asia.
- Sexual health.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (326 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Oxon [England] : Routledge, 2013.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This collection examines enduring and topical questions in sexual and reproductive health in a range of contemporary Asian cultures. Beliefs and practices surrounding conception, pregnancy, birth, and confinement are studies in culturally specific contexts in Japan, Taiwan, the Philippines, Thailand, Laos, Cambodia, and Indonesia. Important and widely applicable health issues are also addressed, including the perception and management of HIV/AIDS, experiences of menopause and the interaction of cosmopolitan (""western'') medicine with traditional healthcare.
- Contents:
- part I. Birth and its inflections
- part II. From her womb ...
- part III. The workings of the body : issues of sexual health.
- Notes:
- First published in 1996 by Harwood Academic.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed January 24, 2014).
- ISBN:
- 1-134-39713-5
- 1-138-98057-9
- 1-315-07874-0
- 1-134-39706-2
- 9781315078748
- OCLC:
- 872682067
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