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333

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Cultural perspectives on reproductive health
2001, Oxford University Press, OUP Oxford
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Table of Contents

Machine generated contents note: 1. Weakness ('Ashaktapana') and Reproductive Health among Women
in a Slum Population in Mumbai
Radhika Ramasubban and Bhanwar Rishyasringa
2. Nutrition and Reproduction: The Socio-cultural Context of
Food Behaviour in Rural South India
Inge Hutter
3. 'Rariu Doesn't Rhyme with Western Medicine': Lay Beliefs and
Illness Networks in Kenya
Nancy Luke, Ina Warriner, and Susan Cotts Watkins
4. Money, Marriage, and Morality: Constraints on IVF Treatment-Seeking
among Infertile Egyptian Couples
Marcia C. Inhorn
5. Risk, Vulnerability, Harm Reduction: Preventing STIs in
Southeast Asia by Antibiotic Prophylaxis, a Misguided Practice
Mark Nichter
Part II. Discourse, Practice, and Reproductive Choices
6. Managing 'the Missing Girls' in Chinese Population Discourse
Susan Greenhalgh
7 Reproductive Health Counselling in the Islamic Republic of
Iran: The Role of Women Mullahs
Homa Hoodfar
8. Abortion in Egypt: Official Constraints and Popular Practices
Dale Huntington
9. The Reproductive Consequences of Shifting Ethnic Identity in
South Africa
Carol E. Kaufman and Deborah James
10. Critical Perspectives: The Feminist Critique of Medicine,
Medicalization, and the Making of Breast Implant Policy
Nora Jacobson
Part III. Culture, Reproduction, and Rights
11. Two Cultural Approaches for Understanding the Reproductive Health
Consequences of Marital Violence in an Indian Area of Mexico
Soledad Gonzdlez Montes
12. Eliminating Stigmatization: Application of the New Genetics in Japan
Margaret Lock
13. Re-theorizing Reproductive Health and Rights in the Light
of Feminist Cross-cultural Research
Rosalind P. Petchesky
14. Culturalism as Ideology
Didier Fassin
Index.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Based on a seminar organised by the Reproductive Health Committee of the International Union for the Scientific Study of Population at Kwa Maritane, South Africa in June 1997.

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Series
International studies in demography
Genre
Congresses.

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Library of Congress
HQ766.5.D44 C84 2001, HQ766.5.D44C84 2001

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x, 333 p. :
Number of pages
333

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OL3970421M
ISBN 10
0199246890
LCCN
2001277482
OCLC/WorldCat
47270952, 48767677
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