Birth on the threshold :: childbirth and modernity in South India /

Arguing that the global spread of biomedical models of childbirth has not brought forth one monolithic form of "modern birth", this text focuses on the birth experiences of lower-class women in Southern India and reveals the complex ways in which modernity emerges in local contexts

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1. Verfasser: Van Hollen, Cecilia Coale (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2003.
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Zusammenfassung:Arguing that the global spread of biomedical models of childbirth has not brought forth one monolithic form of "modern birth", this text focuses on the birth experiences of lower-class women in Southern India and reveals the complex ways in which modernity emerges in local contexts
Beschreibung:1 online resource (xv, 295 pages) : map
Format:Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002.
Bibliographie:Includes bibliographical references (pages 265-279) and index.
ISBN:9780520935396
052093539X
1282762400
9781282762404
1597344990
9781597344999
9786612762406
6612762403

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