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Where There Is No Midwife : Birth and Loss in Rural India / Sarah Pinto.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Fertility, Reproduction and Sexuality: Social and Cultural Perspectives ; 10Publisher: New York ; Oxford : Berghahn Books, [2008]Copyright date: ©2008Description: 1 online resource (342 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9781845453107
  • 9780857450333
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 362.198400954 618.40954
LOC classification:
  • RG965.I4 P56 2008
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- NOTE ON TRANSLITERATIONS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- Chapter 1 WORK WHERE THERE IS NO MIDWIFE -- Chapter 2 BODIES THE POISONOUS LOTUS -- Chapter 3 MEDICINE DEVELOPMENT WITHOUT INSTITUTIONS -- Chapter 4 SEEING VISUALITY IN PREGNANCY -- Chapter 5 DYING IN THE BIG, BIG HANDS OF GOD -- Chapter 6 IDEALS CIPHERS OF TRADITION -- Chapter 7 TALK CASTING DESIRE -- EPILOGUE -- NOTES -- WORKS CITED -- INDEX
Summary: In the Sitapurdistrict of Uttar Pradesh, an agricultural region with high rates of infant mortality, maternal health services are poor while family planning efforts are intensive. By following the daily lives of women in this setting, the author considers the women’s own experiences of birth and infant death, their ways of making-do, and the hierarchies they create and contend with. This book develops an approach to the care that focuses on emotion, domestic spaces, illicit and extra-institutional biomedicine, and household and neighborly relations that these women are able to access. It shows that, as part of the concatenation of affect and access, globalized moralities about reproduction are dependent on ambiguous ideas about caste. Through the unfolding of birth and death, a new vision of "untouchability" emerges that is integral to visions of progress.
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Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- NOTE ON TRANSLITERATIONS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- Chapter 1 WORK WHERE THERE IS NO MIDWIFE -- Chapter 2 BODIES THE POISONOUS LOTUS -- Chapter 3 MEDICINE DEVELOPMENT WITHOUT INSTITUTIONS -- Chapter 4 SEEING VISUALITY IN PREGNANCY -- Chapter 5 DYING IN THE BIG, BIG HANDS OF GOD -- Chapter 6 IDEALS CIPHERS OF TRADITION -- Chapter 7 TALK CASTING DESIRE -- EPILOGUE -- NOTES -- WORKS CITED -- INDEX

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In the Sitapurdistrict of Uttar Pradesh, an agricultural region with high rates of infant mortality, maternal health services are poor while family planning efforts are intensive. By following the daily lives of women in this setting, the author considers the women’s own experiences of birth and infant death, their ways of making-do, and the hierarchies they create and contend with. This book develops an approach to the care that focuses on emotion, domestic spaces, illicit and extra-institutional biomedicine, and household and neighborly relations that these women are able to access. It shows that, as part of the concatenation of affect and access, globalized moralities about reproduction are dependent on ambiguous ideas about caste. Through the unfolding of birth and death, a new vision of "untouchability" emerges that is integral to visions of progress.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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