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Embodying Culture: Pregnancy in Japan and Israel

Embodying Culture: Pregnancy in Japan and Israel

Hardcover

Series: Studies in Medical Anthropology

Women's HealthAnthropologyGeneral Parenting

ISBN10: 0813546354
ISBN13: 9780813546353
Publisher: Rutgers Univ Pr
Published: Dec 1 2009
Pages: 312
Weight: 1.31
Height: 0.81 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Embodying Culture is an ethnographically grounded exploration of pregnancy in two different cultures--Japan and Israel--both of which medicalize pregnancy. Tsipy Ivry focuses on low-risk or normal pregnancies, using cultural comparison to explore the complex relations among ethnic ideas about procreation, local reproductive politics, medical models of pregnancy care, and local modes of maternal agency.

The ethnography pieces together the voices of pregnant Japanese and Israeli women, their doctors, their partners, the literature they read, and depicts various clinical encounters such as ultrasound scans, explanatory classes for amniocentesis, birthing classes, and special pregnancy events.

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