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REPRODUCTIVE AGENCY, MEDICINE AND THE STATE
Cultural Transformations in Childbearing
Edited by Maya Unnithan-Kumar
ISBN 978-1-84545-044-1 Pb $27.95/£15.00 Published ( 2005)
ISBN 978-1-57181-648-1 Hb $90.00/£53.00 Published ( 2004)
Recent years have seen many changes in human reproduction resulting from state and medical interventions in childbearing processes. Based on empirical work in a variety of societies and countries, this volume considers the relationship between reproductive processes (of fertility, pregnancy, childbirth and the postpartum period) on the one hand and attitudes, medical technologies and state health policies in diverse cultural contexts on the other.
Maya Unnithan-Kumar is Senior Lecturer in Anthropology at the University of Sussex. Her research in the early 1990s focused on kinship and gender relations in northwest India and appeared as Identity, Gender and Poverty (Berghahn Books 1997).
Series: Volume 3, Fertility, Reproduction and Sexuality
LC: RG133.5 .R456 2004
BL: YC.2009.a.7614
BISAC: SOC032000 SOCIAL SCIENCE/Gender Studies; MED082000 MEDICAL/Reproductive Medicine & TechnologyBIC: PSXM Medical anthropology; JFSJ1 Gender studies: womenContents
List of Figures and Tables
Preface and Acknowledgements
Introduction: Reproductive Agency, Medicine and the State
Maya Unnithan-Kumar
Chapter 1. Attitudes to Genetic Diagnosis and to the use of Medical Technologies in Pregnancy: Some British Pakistani Perspectives
Alison Shaw
Chapter 2. Localising a Brave New World: New Reproductive Technologies and the Politics of Fertility in Contemporary Sri Lanka
Bob Simpson
Chapter 3. Conception Technologies, Local Healers and Negotiations around Childbearing in Rajasthan
Maya Unnithan-Kumar
Chapter 4. Programmes of Gamete Donation: Strategies in (Private) Clinics of Assisted Conception
Monica M. E. Bonaccorso
Chapter 5. Women, Doctors and Pain
William Stones
Chapter 6. Labour, Privatisation, and Class: Middle-Class Women’s Experience of Changing Hospital Births in Calcutta
Henrike Donner
Chapter 7. In Search of Closure for Quinacrine: Science and Politics in Contexts of Uncertainty and Inequality
Asha George
Chapter 8. ‘She Has a Tender Body’: Postpartum Morbidity and Care during Bananthana in Rural South India
Asha Kilaru, Zoe Matthews, Jayashree Ramakrishna, Shanti Mahendra and Saraswathy Ganapathy
Chapter 9. ‘And Never the Twain Shall Meet’: Reproductive Health Policies in the Islamic Republic of Iran
Soraya Tremayne
Chapter 10. Women in Fertility Studies and In Situ
Tulsi Patel
Chapter 11. Heteronomous Women? Hidden Assumptions in the Demography of Women
Sumi Madhok
Notes on Contributors
Index