A companion to the anthropology of reproductive medicine and technology

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9781119845348

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Additional physical formats: Online version:: Companion to the anthropology of reproductive medicine and technologyDDC classification:

306.4 23/eng/20230413 VAN-C

Contents:

SECTION I Reproductive Practitioners and Paradigms 39 SECTION II Global Reproductive Health Interventions 119 SECTION III Reproductive Justice: Extending and Rupturing Old Boundaries 201 SECTION IV Reproductive Life Course: Mapping More than Just Birth 299 SECTION V (Re)Producing the Future: Sociality of Reproductive Technology and Medicine 397

Summary: "The history of obstetrics is also a history of power. As the field of obstetrics became more professionalized, specialized, and masculinized in the 19th century, midwifery was racialized and excised in the United States and denigrated abroad by early development efforts. Childbirth shifted into the hospital where obstetricians continue to develop medical and technological models of perinatal care"--

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode	Item holds	Course reserves
Books	IIITD General Stacks	Social Science	REF 306.4 VAN-C (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Not for loan		012515		Enhancement Technologies and the Body UG/PG MNS

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

"The history of obstetrics is also a history of power. As the field of obstetrics became more professionalized, specialized, and masculinized in the 19th century, midwifery was racialized and excised in the United States and denigrated abroad by early development efforts. Childbirth shifted into the hospital where obstetricians continue to develop medical and technological models of perinatal care"--

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