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Where there is no midwife [electronic resource] : birth and loss in rural India / Sarah Pinto.

By: Pinto, Sarah.
Contributor(s): ebrary, Inc.
Series: Fertility, reproduction, and sexuality ; v. 10.Publisher: New York : Berghahn Books, c2008Description: xi, 330 p. ; 24 cm.Subject(s): Childbirth -- India | Rural health -- IndiaGenre/Form: Electronic books. DDC classification: 618.40954 Online resources: An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view
Contents:
Work : where there is no midwife -- Bodies : the poisonous lotus -- Medicine : development without institutions -- Seeing : visuality in pregnancy -- Dying : in the big, big hands of god -- Ideals : ciphers of tradition -- Talk : casting desire -- Epilogue.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [302]-319) and index.

Work : where there is no midwife -- Bodies : the poisonous lotus -- Medicine : development without institutions -- Seeing : visuality in pregnancy -- Dying : in the big, big hands of god -- Ideals : ciphers of tradition -- Talk : casting desire -- Epilogue.

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Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2010. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.