TY  - BOOK
AU  - Pinto,Sarah
TI  - Where There Is No Midwife: Birth and Loss in Rural India 
T2  - Fertility, Reproduction and Sexuality: Social and Cultural Perspectives
SN  - 9781845453107
AV  - RG965.I4 P56 2008
U1  - 362.198400954618.40954 
PY  - 2008///]
CY  - New York, Oxford
PB  - Berghahn Books
KW  - Childbirth
KW  - India
KW  - Rural health
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Medical Anthropology, Gender Studies and Sexuality
N1  - 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; restricted access
N2  - 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
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9780857450333?locatt=mode:legacy
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780857450333
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780857450333/original
ER  -