Where there is no midwife

Pinto, Sarah.

Where there is no midwife birth and loss in rural India / [electronic resource] : Sarah Pinto. - New York : Berghahn Books, c2008. - xi, 330 p. ; 24 cm. - Fertility, reproduction, and sexuality ; v. 10 .

Includes bibliographical references (p. [302]-319) and index.

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.


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2010.
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Childbirth--India.
Rural health--India.


Electronic books.

RG965.I4 / P56 2008eb

618.40954

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