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Where There Is No Midwife: Birth and Loss in Rural India

Where There Is No Midwife: Birth and Loss in Rural India

Pinto, Sarah

Hardcover

Series: Fertility, Reproduction and Sexuality: Social and Cultural P, Book 10

Medical ReferenceAnthropologyGeneral Sociology

ISBN10: 1845453107
ISBN13: 9781845453107
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Published: Mar 1 2008
Pages: 342
Weight: 1.38
Height: 0.81 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

In the Sitapurdistrict of Uttar Pradesh, an agricultural region with high rates of infant mortality, maternal health services are poor while family planning efforts are intensive. By following the daily lives of women in this setting, the author considers the women's own experiences of birth and infant death, their ways of making-do, and the hierarchies they create and contend with. This book develops an approach to the care that focuses on emotion, domestic spaces, illicit and extra-institutional biomedicine, and household and neighborly relations that these women are able to access. It shows that, as part of the concatenation of affect and access, globalized moralities about reproduction are dependent on ambiguous ideas about caste. Through the unfolding of birth and death, a new vision of untouchability emerges that is integral to visions of progress.

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