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Author : Kalpana Ram
Release : 1998-02-26
Genre : Social Science
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Book Rating : 146/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Maternities and Modernities by : Kalpana Ram
Download or read book Maternities and Modernities written by Kalpana Ram. This book was released on 1998-02-26. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A wide-ranging, comparative study of concepts of motherhood.
Author : Ranjana Saha
Release : 2023-07-27
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 39X/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Modern Maternities by : Ranjana Saha
Download or read book Modern Maternities written by Ranjana Saha. This book was released on 2023-07-27. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 1) This is one of the first systematic historical account of Medical Advice about Breastfeeding in Colonial Calcutta. 2) It has rich archival sources like rare medical handbooks and periodicals, governmental proceedings, child welfare exhibition and conference reports, personal papers, memoirs, illustrations and advertisements. 3) This book will be of interest to departments of social history and colonial history across UK.
Author : Barbara Brook
Release : 2014-06-11
Genre : Social Science
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Book Rating : 226/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Feminist Perspectives on the Body by : Barbara Brook
Download or read book Feminist Perspectives on the Body written by Barbara Brook. This book was released on 2014-06-11. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Feminist Perspectives on the Body provides an accessible introduction to this extremely popular new area and is aimed at students from a variety of disciplines who are interested in gaining an understanding of the key issues involved. The author explores many important topics including: the Western world's construction of the body as a theoretical, philosophical and political concept; the body and reproduction; medicalisation; cosmetic surgery and eating disorders; the body in performance; the private and the public body; working bodies and new ways of thinking about the body.
Author : Linda H. Connor
Release : 2001-02-28
Genre : Social Science
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Book Rating : 762/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Healing Powers and Modernity by : Linda H. Connor
Download or read book Healing Powers and Modernity written by Linda H. Connor. This book was released on 2001-02-28. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is the current state of traditional healing practices in contemporary Asian societies? How are their practitioners faring in the encounter with Western science and its biomedical approach? How are traditional healing practices being transformed by the politics of health within the modern nation-state and by the processes of commodification typical of modern economies? How do patients in Asian societies see the various healing options now open to them? The authors, all of whom are anthropologists, observe the clashes and complementarities between traditional therapies and biomedicine, which, in its many manifestations, is the dominant form of medicine supported by national governments, and is emblematic of the modernity to which they aspire. Some of the medical traditions, such as the sophisticated herbal-humoral systems of Tibetan medicine and Indian Ayurveda, are becoming well known in the West, both through scholarly study and through their increasing popularity with Western patients interested in their healing potential. This book adds a new dimension to their study, being focused unlike most previous writing on practice rather than textual tradition.
Author : Sarah Pinto
Release : 2008-03-01
Genre : Social Science
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Book Rating : 336/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Where There Is No Midwife by : Sarah Pinto
Download or read book Where There Is No Midwife written by Sarah Pinto. This book was released on 2008-03-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
