Reproductive Agency, Medicine and the State: Cultural Transformations in Childbearing

Reproductive Agency, Medicine and the State: Cultural Transformations in Childbearing

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Format:  Hardback
Pages:  256
Publisher:  Berghahn Books, Incorporated
Year:  2004
ISBN:  9781571816481

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.

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