A companion to the anthropology of reproductive medicine and technology
A companion to the anthropology of reproductive medicine and technology
edited by Cecilia Coale Van Hollen and Nayantara Appleton.
- New Jersey : Wiley, ©2024
- xxiii, 529 p. ; 26 cm.
- Wiley Blackwell companions to anthropology .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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
"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"--
9781119845348
2023010360
Human reproduction--Anthropological aspects.
Medical anthropology.
Reproductive health.
Human reproductive technology.
306.4 / VAN-C
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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
"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"--
9781119845348
2023010360
Human reproduction--Anthropological aspects.
Medical anthropology.
Reproductive health.
Human reproductive technology.
306.4 / VAN-C