Where there is no midwife [electronic resource] : birth and loss in rural India / Sarah Pinto.

By: Contributor(s): Series: Fertility, reproduction, and sexuality ; v. 10Publication details: New York : Berghahn Books, c2008.Description: xi, 330 p. ; 24 cmSubject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 618.40954 22
LOC classification:
  • RG965.I4 P56 2008eb
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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.
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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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