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Daughters of Hariti
Author | : Santi Rozario,Geoffrey Samuel |
Publsiher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 350 |
Release | : 2003-09-02 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9781134471348 |
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Hariti is the ancient Indian goddess of childbirth and women healers, known at one time throughout South and Southeast Asia from India to Nepal and Bali. Daughters of Hariti looks at her 'daughters' today, female midwives and healers in many different cultures across the region. It also traces the transformation of childbirth in these cultures under the impact of Western biomedical technology, national and international health policies and the wider factors of social and economic change. The authors ask what can be done to improve the high rates of maternal and infant deaths and illnesses still associated with childbirth in most societies in this area and whether the wholesale replacement of indigenous knowledge by Western biomedical technology is necessarily a good thing.
The Daughters of H rit
Author | : Santi Rozario,Geoffrey Samuel |
Publsiher | : Psychology Press |
Total Pages | : 306 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : Medical |
ISBN | : 0415277922 |
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The authors ask what can be done to improve maternal and infant deaths and illnesses still associated with childbirth in this area and whether the wholesale replacement of indigenous knowledge by Western biomedical technology is a good thing.
Multiple Medical Realities
Author | : Helle Johannessen,Imre Lazar |
Publsiher | : Berghahn Books |
Total Pages | : 220 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : Health & Fitness |
ISBN | : 184545104X |
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Nowadays a plethora of treatment technologies is available to the consumer, each employing a variety of concepts of the body, self, sickness and healing. This volume explores the options, strategies and consequences that are both relevant and necessary for patients and practitioners who are manoeuvring this medical plurality. Although wideranging in scope and covering areas as diverse as India, Ecuador, Ghana and Norway, central to all contributions is the observation that technologies of healing are founded on socially learned and to some extent fluid experiences of body and self.
Where There is No Midwife
Author | : Sarah Pinto |
Publsiher | : Berghahn Books |
Total Pages | : 350 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : Childbirth |
ISBN | : 1845453107 |
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"In the Sitapur district 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."--Jacket.
Prayer in the City
Author | : Patrick A. Desplat,Dorothea E. Schulz |
Publsiher | : transcript Verlag |
Total Pages | : 315 |
Release | : 2014-03-31 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9783839419458 |
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This volume envisions social practices surrounding mosques, shrines and public spaces in urban contexts as a window on the diverse ways in which Muslims in different regional and historical settings imagine, experience, and inhabit places and spaces as »sacred«. Unlike most studies on Muslim communities, this volume focuses on cultural, material and sensuous practices and urban everyday experience. Drawing on a range of analytical perspectives, the contributions examine spatial practices in Muslim societies from an interdisciplinary perspective, an approach which has been widely neglected both in Islamic studies and social sciences.
Aromas of Asia
Author | : Hannah Gould and Gwyn McClelland |
Publsiher | : Penn State Press |
Total Pages | : 363 |
Release | : 2024 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : 9780271096179 |
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Reproduction Childbearing and Motherhood
Author | : Pranee Liamputtong |
Publsiher | : Nova Publishers |
Total Pages | : 312 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : Family & Relationships |
ISBN | : 1600216064 |
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Although reproduction including infertility, abortion, childbearing and motherhood is a significant human experience, its social meaning is shaped by the culture in which birthing women live. Reproduction and its management, therefore, occur within the social and cultural context of the event. As such, reproductive beliefs and practices differ across social and cultural settings. This book focuses on reproduction, childbearing and motherhood. In this volume, the authors show that despite the modernisation of the society and advanced medical technology and knowledge in reproduction, traditions continue to exert influence on how the women and their families manage their reproduction, childbearing and motherhood in their societies.
Birth and Birthgivers
Author | : Janet Chawla |
Publsiher | : Har-Anand Publications |
Total Pages | : 1280 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : Childbirth |
ISBN | : 8124109389 |
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This volume presents waried essays exploring women's voices, agencies and aesthetics in the traditional handling of chilbearing. Ayurveda as it comprehends reproduction, sohars (birth songs), birth narratives cord-cutters, dais' knowledge and compensation systems, as well as analyses of biomedical dominance and erasure of indigenous knowledge all provide a peek bechind the purdah in this critical reclamation of tradition.