| Description |
1 online resource (xv, 295 pages) : map |
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polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 265-279) and index. |
| Contents |
The professionalization of obstetrics in colonial India: The problems of childbirth in colonial discourse -- Maternal and child health services in the postcolonial era -- Bangles of neem, bangles of gold: pregnant women as auspicious burdens -- Invoking vali: painful technologies of birth -- Moving targets: the routinization of IUD insertions in public maternity wards -- Baby friendly hospitals and bad mothers: maneuvering development during the postpartum period -- Conclusion: reproductive rights, choices, and resistance. |
| Access |
Use copy Restrictions unspecified MiAaHDL |
| Reproduction |
Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. MiAaHDL |
| System Details |
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. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
| Processing Action |
digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve MiAaHDL |
| Summary |
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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Childbirth -- India, South.
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Childbirth. |
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South India. |
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Maternal Health Services. |
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Labor, Obstetric -- ethnology. |
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Women's Health. |
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India. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Van Hollen, Cecilia Coale. Birth on the threshold. Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2003 0520223586 (DLC) 2003003890 (OCoLC)51728687 |
| ISBN |
9780520935396 (electronic book) |
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052093539X (electronic book) |
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0520223586 |
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9780520223585 |
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0520223594 |
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9780520223592 |
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