{"product_id":"reproductive-agency-medicine-and-the-state-cultural-transformations-in-childbearing-9781845450441","title":"Reproductive Agency, Medicine and the State:","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e \tRecent 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e \tList of Figures and Tables\u003cbr\u003e \tPreface and Acknowledgements\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eIntroduction:\u003c\/b\u003e Reproductive Agency, Medicine and the State\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003ci\u003eMaya Unnithan-Kumar\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 1.\u003c\/b\u003e Attitudes to Genetic Diagnosis and to the use of Medical Technologies in Pregnancy: Some British Pakistani Perspectives\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003ci\u003eAlison Shaw\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 2.\u003c\/b\u003e Localising a Brave New World: New Reproductive Technologies and the Politics of Fertility in Contemporary Sri Lanka\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003ci\u003eBob Simpson\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 3.\u003c\/b\u003e Conception Technologies, Local Healers and Negotiations around Childbearing in Rajasthan\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003ci\u003eMaya Unnithan-Kumar\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 4.\u003c\/b\u003e Programmes of Gamete Donation: Strategies in (Private) Clinics of Assisted Conception\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003ci\u003eMonica M. E. Bonaccorso\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 5.\u003c\/b\u003e Women, Doctors and Pain\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003ci\u003eWilliam Stones\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 6.\u003c\/b\u003e Labour, Privatisation, and Class: Middle-Class Women’s Experience of Changing Hospital Births in Calcutta\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003ci\u003eHenrike Donner\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 7.\u003c\/b\u003e In Search of Closure for Quinacrine: Science and Politics in Contexts of Uncertainty and Inequality\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003ci\u003eAsha George\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 8.\u003c\/b\u003e ‘She Has a Tender Body’: Postpartum Morbidity and Care during Bananthana in Rural South India\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003ci\u003eAsha Kilaru\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eZoe Matthews\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eJayashree Ramakrishna\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eShanti Mahendra\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eSaraswathy Ganapathy\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 9.\u003c\/b\u003e ‘And Never the Twain Shall Meet’: Reproductive Health Policies in the Islamic Republic of Iran\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003ci\u003eSoraya Tremayne\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 10.\u003c\/b\u003e Women in Fertility Studies and In Situ\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003ci\u003eTulsi Patel\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 11.\u003c\/b\u003e Heteronomous Women? Hidden Assumptions in the Demography of Women\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003ci\u003eSumi Madhok\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \tNotes on Contributors\u003cbr\u003e \tIndex\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Berghahn Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51042962604375,"sku":"9781845450441","price":26.55,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781845450441.jpg?v=1750956418","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/reproductive-agency-medicine-and-the-state-cultural-transformations-in-childbearing-9781845450441","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}