| Description |
x, 275 pages ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
Introduction: induced abortion in a changing world / John C. Caldwell, Pat Caldwell -- Abortion: a worldwide overview / Susheela Singh, Stanley K. Henshaw, Kathleen Berentsen -- The challenge of induced abortion research: transdisciplinary perspectives / Axel I. Mundigo -- Demographic research and abortion policy: limits to the use of statistics / Andrzej Kulczycki -- Kutoa Mimba: debates about schoolgirl abortion in Machame, Tanzania / Amy Stambach -- Cleaning the belly: managing menstrual health in Guinea, West Africa / Eleise Levin -- Changing assessments of abortion in a northern Nigerian town / Elisha P. Renne -- The role of local herbs in the recent fertility decline in Ghana: contraceptives or abortifacients? / John K. Anarfi -- Menstrual regulation in Bangladesh / Sajeda Amin -- The impact of reproductive health policy changes on fertility, abortion, and contraceptive use in Romania / Florina Serbanescu, Leo Morris, Paul Stupp -- Determinants of abortion and contraceptive behavior in Russia / Inge Hutter -- Abortion legislation in Mexico in the face of a changing sociodemographic and political context / Susana Lerner, Guadalupe Salas -- The role of pharmacists and market herb vendors as abortifacient providers in Mexico City / Susan Pick ... [et al.] -- The social pressure to abort / Chantal Blayo, Yves Blayo -- Concluding remarks: the role of ambiguity / Alaka Malwade Basu. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Subject |
Abortion -- Cross-cultural studies.
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Abortion. |
| Genre/Form |
Cross-cultural studies.
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| Subject |
Avortement -- Études transculturelles. |
| Added Author |
Basu, Alaka Malwade.
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| ISBN |
0275977285 alkaline paper |
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