01783nam a22003134a 4500 ebr10062291 CaPaEBR m u cr cn||||||||| 030213s2003 caub sb 001 0 eng 2003003890 0520223586 (cloth : alk. paper) 0520223594 (pbk. : alk. paper) CaPaEBR CaPaEBR (OCoLC)58538349 RG530.3.I42 I583 2003eb 618.2/00954 21 Van Hollen, Cecilia Coale. Birth on the threshold [electronic resource] : childbirth and modernity in South India / 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. local ebrary, Inc. http://site.ebrary.com/lib/rucke/Doc?id=10062291 An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view 47013 47013