Birth on the threshold
Van Hollen, Cecilia Coale.
Birth on the threshold childbirth and modernity in South India / [electronic resource] : Cecilia Van Hollen. - Berkeley : University of California Press, c2003. - xv, 295 p. : map.
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.
Childbirth--India, South.
Electronic books.
RG530.3.I42 / I583 2003eb
618.2/00954
Birth on the threshold childbirth and modernity in South India / [electronic resource] : Cecilia Van Hollen. - Berkeley : University of California Press, c2003. - xv, 295 p. : map.
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.
Childbirth--India, South.
Electronic books.
RG530.3.I42 / I583 2003eb
618.2/00954