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Navigating miscarriage : social, medical, and conceptual perspectives / edited by Susie Kilshaw and Katie Borg.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Fertility, reproduction, and sexuality ; Volume 45.
- Fertility, reproduction, and sexuality ; Volume 45
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Miscarriage.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (252 pages).
- Place of Publication:
- New York ; Oxford : Berghahn, [2020]
- Summary:
- Miscarriage is a significant women's health issue. Research has consistently shown that one in four pregnancies end in miscarriage. This collected volume explores miscarriage in diverse historical and cultural settings with contributions from anthropologists, historians and medical professionals. Contributors use rich ethnographic and historical material to discuss how pregnancy loss is managed and negotiated in a range of societies. The book considers meanings attached to miscarriage and how religious, cultural, medical and legal forces impact the way miscarriage is experienced and perceived.
- Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction. Ambiguities and Navigations
- Chapter 1. Does Twenty-First-Century Technology Change the Experience of Early Pregnancy and Miscarriage?
- Chapter 2. The Meanings of Miscarriage in Twentieth-Century Britain
- Chapter 3. Alleviating the Ambiguities around Miscarriage: Discursive Tactics in Cameroon and Romania
- Chapter 4. Some Babies Cannot Be Stopped from Falling: Miscarriage in Pakistani Punjab
- Chapter 5. God’s Design, Thwarted Plans: Women’s Experience of Miscarriage in Qatar and England
- Chapter 6. ‘It Felt Like the Longest Time of My Life’: Using Foetal Dopplers at Home to Manage Anxiety about Miscarriage
- Chapter 7. Miscarriage and Its Resulting Losses during Commercial Surrogacy in India
- Chapter 8. Unwitnessed Ceremonies: Funeral Services for Pre-24-Week Pregnancy Losses in England
- Conclusions
- Index
- Notes:
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 1-80758-577-8
- 1-78920-664-2
- OCLC:
- 1130328039
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