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Abstract
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).
Table of Contents
| Section Title | Page | Action | Price |
|---|---|---|---|
| REPRODUCTIVE AGENCY, MEDICINE AND THE STATE | i | ||
| CONTENTS | v | ||
| INTRODUCTION: REPRODUCTIVE AGENCY, MEDICINE AND THE STATE | 1 | ||
| CHAPTER 1. ATTITUDES TO GENETIC DIAGNOSIS AND TO THE USE OF MEDICAL TECHNOLOGIES IN PREGNANCY: SOME BRITISH PAKISTANI PERSPECTIVES | 25 | ||
| CHAPTER 2. LOCALISING A BRAVE NEW WORLD: NEW REPRODUCTIVE TECHNOLOGIES AND THE POLITICS OF FERTILITY IN CONTEMPORARY SRI LANKA | 43 | ||
| CHAPTER 3. CONCEPTION TECHNOLOGIES, LOCAL HEALERS AND NEGOTIATIONS AROUND CHILDBEARING IN RAJASTHAN | 59 | ||
| CHAPTER 4. PROGRAMMES OF GAMETE DONATION: STRATEGIES IN (PRIVATE) CLINICS OF ASSISTED CONCEPTION | 83 | ||
| CHAPTER 5. WOMEN, DOCTORS AND PAIN | 103 | ||
| CHAPTER 6. LABOUR, PRIVATISATION AND CLASS: MIDDLE-CLASS WOMEN’S EXPERIENCE OF CHANGING HOSPITAL BIRTHS IN CALCUTTA | 113 | ||
| CHAPTER 7. IN SEARCH OF CLOSURE FOR QUINACRINE: SCIENCE AND POLITICS IN CONTEXTS OF UNCERTAINTY AND INEQUALITY | 137 | ||
| Appendix | 159 | ||
| CHAPTER 8. ‘SHE HAS A TENDER BODY’: POSTPARTUM MORBIDITY AND CARE DURING BANANTHANA IN RURAL SOUTH INDIA | 161 | ||
| CHAPTER 9. ‘AND NEVER THE TWAIN SHALL MEET’: REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH POLICIES IN THE ISLAMIC REPUBLIC OF IRAN | 181 | ||
| CHAPTER 10. WOMEN IN FERTILITY STUDIES AND IN SITU | 203 | ||
| CHAPTER 11. HETERONOMOUS WOMEN? HIDDEN ASSUMPTIONS IN THE DEMOGRAPHY OF WOMEN | 223 | ||
| NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS | 245 | ||
| INDEX | 249 |