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Birth on the threshold

by Van Hollen, Cecilia Coale.

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Published by : University of California Press, (Berkeley :) Physical details: xv, 295 p. : map.

Subject(s): Childbirth -- India, South. | Electronic books.

Year: 2003

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Includes bibliographical references (p. 265-279) and index.

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.

Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2013. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.

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