Maternities and Modernities - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Maternities and Modernities write by Kalpana Ram. This book was released on 1998-02-26. Maternities and Modernities available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A wide-ranging, comparative study of concepts of motherhood.
Modern Maternities
Modern Maternities - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Modern Maternities write by Ranjana Saha. This book was released on 2023-07-27. Modern Maternities available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 1) This is one of the first systematic historical account of Medical Advice about Breastfeeding in Colonial Calcutta. 2) It has rich archival sources like rare medical handbooks and periodicals, governmental proceedings, child welfare exhibition and conference reports, personal papers, memoirs, illustrations and advertisements. 3) This book will be of interest to departments of social history and colonial history across UK.
Feminist Perspectives on the Body
Feminist Perspectives on the Body - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Feminist Perspectives on the Body write by Barbara Brook. This book was released on 2014-06-11. Feminist Perspectives on the Body available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Feminist Perspectives on the Body provides an accessible introduction to this extremely popular new area and is aimed at students from a variety of disciplines who are interested in gaining an understanding of the key issues involved. The author explores many important topics including: the Western world's construction of the body as a theoretical, philosophical and political concept; the body and reproduction; medicalisation; cosmetic surgery and eating disorders; the body in performance; the private and the public body; working bodies and new ways of thinking about the body.
Healing Powers and Modernity
Healing Powers and Modernity - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Healing Powers and Modernity write by Linda H. Connor. This book was released on 2001-02-28. Healing Powers and Modernity available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. What is the current state of traditional healing practices in contemporary Asian societies? How are their practitioners faring in the encounter with Western science and its biomedical approach? How are traditional healing practices being transformed by the politics of health within the modern nation-state and by the processes of commodification typical of modern economies? How do patients in Asian societies see the various healing options now open to them? The authors, all of whom are anthropologists, observe the clashes and complementarities between traditional therapies and biomedicine, which, in its many manifestations, is the dominant form of medicine supported by national governments, and is emblematic of the modernity to which they aspire. Some of the medical traditions, such as the sophisticated herbal-humoral systems of Tibetan medicine and Indian Ayurveda, are becoming well known in the West, both through scholarly study and through their increasing popularity with Western patients interested in their healing potential. This book adds a new dimension to their study, being focused unlike most previous writing on practice rather than textual tradition.
Where There Is No Midwife
Where There Is No Midwife - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Where There Is No Midwife write by Sarah Pinto. This book was released on 2008-03-01. Where There Is No Midwife available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In the Sitapurdistrict of Uttar Pradesh, an agricultural region with high rates of infant mortality, maternal health services are poor while family planning efforts are intensive. By following the daily lives of women in this setting, the author considers the women’s own experiences of birth and infant death, their ways of making-do, and the hierarchies they create and contend with. This book develops an approach to the care that focuses on emotion, domestic spaces, illicit and extra-institutional biomedicine, and household and neighborly relations that these women are able to access. It shows that, as part of the concatenation of affect and access, globalized moralities about reproduction are dependent on ambiguous ideas about caste. Through the unfolding of birth and death, a new vision of "untouchability" emerges that is integral to visions of progress.
