| Description |
xii, 364 pages ; 24 cm |
| Series |
Cambridge studies in medical anthropology ; 5 |
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Cambridge studies in medical anthropology ; 5
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| Contents |
Machine derived contents note: Introduction Margaret Lock and Patricia Kaufert -- 1. Remembering Amal: reflections on birth and the British in Northern Sudan Janice Boddy -- 2. Resistance and embrace: Sudanese rural women and systems of power Ellen Gruenbaum -- 3. Not only women: science as resistance in open door Egypt Soheir A. Morsy -- 4. Inscribing the body politic: women and AIDS in Africa Brooke Grundfest Schoepf -- 5. Barren ground: contesting identities of infertile women in Pemba, Tanzania Karina Kielmann -- 6. Wives, mothers, and lesbians: rethinking resistance in the US Ellen Lewin -- 7. The consequences of modernity for childless women in China: medicalization and resistance Lisa Handwerker -- 8. Perfecting society: reproductive technologies, genetic testing and the planned family in Japan Margaret Lock -- 9. An ethnography of the medicalization of Puerto Rican women's reproduction Iris Lopez -- 10. Situating resistance in fields of resistance: Aboriginal women and environmentalism John D. O'Neil, Brenda D. Elias and Annalee Yassi -- 11. Women, resistance and the breast cancer movement Patricia Kaufert -- 12. Selective compliance with biomedical authority and the uses of experiential knowledge Emily K. Abel and C. H. Browner -- 13. The mission within the madness: self-initiated medicalization as expression of agency Mark Nichter -- References |
| Notes |
Includes index |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Human reproductive technology -- Social aspects.
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Medical anthropology.
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Medical technology -- Social aspects.
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Women -- Health and hygiene.
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Women -- Social conditions.
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Women's health services.
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| Author |
Kaufert, Patricia A. (Patricia Alice)
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Lock, Margaret M.
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| LC no. |
97010263 |
| ISBN |
0521620996 |
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0521629292 (paperback) |
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