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Where there is no midwife : birth and loss in rural India / Sarah Pinto.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Pinto, Sarah.
- 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.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (342 p.)
- Other Title:
- Birth and loss in rural India
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Berghahn Books, c2008.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- In the Sitapur district of Uttar Pradesh, an agricultural region with high rates of infant mortality, maternal health services are poor while family planning efforts are intensive. By following the daily lives of women in this setting, the author considers women's own experiences of birth and infant death, their ways of making-do, and the hierarchies they create and contend with. This book develops an approach to access to care that focuses on emotion, domestic spaces, illicit and extra-institutional biomedicine, and household and neighborly relations. It shows that, as part of the concatenati
- 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:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [302]-319) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786612626838
- 9780857454485
- 085745448X
- 9781282626836
- 1282626833
- 9780857450333
- 0857450336
- OCLC:
- 645101876
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