TY - BOOK AU - Bonaccorso,Monica M.E. AU - Donner,Henrike AU - Ganapathy,Saraswathy AU - George,Asha AU - Kilaru,Asha AU - Madhok,Sumi AU - Mahendra,Shanti AU - Matthews,Zoe AU - Patel,Tulsi AU - Ramakrishna,Jayashree AU - Shaw,Alison AU - Simpson,Bob AU - Stones,William AU - Tremayne,Soraya AU - Unnithan-Kumar,Maya TI - Reproductive Agency, Medicine and the State: Cultural Transformations in Childbearing T2 - Fertility, Reproduction and Sexuality: Social and Cultural Perspectives SN - 9781845450441 U1 - 306.4/61 22 PY - 2004///] CY - New York, Oxford PB - Berghahn Books KW - Childbirth KW - Social aspects KW - Cross-cultural studies KW - Ethnology KW - Fertility, Human KW - Human reproductive technology KW - Government policy KW - Public opinion KW - Reproductive technology KW - Social change KW - SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies KW - bisacsh KW - Medical Anthropology, Gender Studies and Sexuality N1 - Frontmatter --; CONTENTS --; LIST OF FIGURES AND TABLES --; PREFACE AND ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS --; INTRODUCTION: REPRODUCTIVE AGENCY, MEDICINE AND THE STATE --; CHAPTER 1 ATTITUDES TO GENETIC DIAGNOSIS AND TO THE USE OF MEDICAL TECHNOLOGIES IN PREGNANCY: SOME BRITISH PAKISTANI PERSPECTIVES --; CHAPTER 2 LOCALISING A BRAVE NEW WORLD: NEW REPRODUCTIVE TECHNOLOGIES AND THE POLITICS OF FERTILITY IN CONTEMPORARY SRI LANKA --; CHAPTER 3 CONCEPTION TECHNOLOGIES, LOCAL HEALERS AND NEGOTIATIONS AROUND CHILDBEARING IN RAJASTHAN --; CHAPTER 4 PROGRAMMES OF GAMETE DONATION: STRATEGIES IN (PRIVATE) CLINICS OF ASSISTED CONCEPTION --; CHAPTER 5 WOMEN, DOCTORS AND PAIN --; CHAPTER 6 LABOUR, PRIVATISATION AND CLASS: MIDDLE-CLASS WOMEN’S EXPERIENCE OF CHANGING HOSPITAL BIRTHS IN CALCUTTA --; CHAPTER 7 IN SEARCH OF CLOSURE FOR QUINACRINE: SCIENCE AND POLITICS IN CONTEXTS OF UNCERTAINTY AND INEQUALITY --; CHAPTER 8 ‘SHE HAS A TENDER BODY’: POSTPARTUM MORBIDITY AND CARE DURING BANANTHANA IN RURAL SOUTH INDIA --; CHAPTER 9 ‘AND NEVER THE TWAIN SHALL MEET’: REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH POLICIES IN THE ISLAMIC REPUBLIC OF IRAN --; CHAPTER 10 WOMEN IN FERTILITY STUDIES AND IN SITU --; CHAPTER 11 HETERONOMOUS WOMEN? HIDDEN ASSUMPTIONS IN THE DEMOGRAPHY OF WOMEN --; NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS --; INDEX; restricted access N2 - 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 UR - https://doi.org/10.1515/9781782388623 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781782388623 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781782388623/original ER -