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Birth on the Threshold: Childbirth and Modernity in South India
Birth on the Threshold Childbirth and Modernity in South India
Author: Cecilia Van Hollen
Even childbirth is affected by globalization--and in India, as elsewhere, the trend is away from home births, assisted by midwives, toward hospital births with increasing reliance on new technologies. And yet, as this work of critical feminist ethnography clearly demonstrates, the global spread of biomedical models of childbirth has not brought ...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780520223592
ISBN-10: 0520223594
Publication Date: 10/16/2003
Pages: 272
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Publisher: University of California Press
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover
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