Title The anthropology of pregnancy loss : comparative studies in miscarriage, stillbirth, and neonatal death / edited by Rosanne Cecil

Published Oxford, UK ; Washington, D.C. : Berg Publishers, 1996

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 226 pages) Series Cross-cultural perspectives on women Cross-cultural perspectives on women. Contents Delayed periods and falling babies: The ethnophysiology and politics of pregnancy loss in rural north India -- Cultural explanations for pregnancy loss in rural Jamaica -- Water spirits, medicine-men and witches: Avenues to successful reproduction among the Abelam, Papua New Guinea -- Explaining pregnancy loss in matrilineal Southeast Tanzania -- Children of the rope and other aspects of pregnancy loss in Cameroon -- Variation in risk of pregnancy loss -- Never such innocence again: Irony, nature and technoscience in narratives of pregnancy loss -- Cultural variations in South African women's experiences of miscarriage: Implications for clinical care -- Memories of pregnancy loss: Recollections of elderly women in Northern Ireland -- Something more than blood: Conflicting accounts of pregnancy loss in eighteenth-century England Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and indexes Notes Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL Print version record Subject Childbirth -- Cross-cultural studies. Miscarriage -- Cross-cultural studies Stillbirth -- Cross-cultural studies Newborn infants -- Death -- Cross-cultural studies Labor (Obstetrics) Miscarriage. Cross-cultural studies. Fetal death. Labor, Obstetric Abortion, Spontaneous Cross-Cultural Comparison Fetal Death Infant Mortality Abortion, Habitual Labor (Obstetrics) Fetal death Cross-cultural studies Childbirth Miscarriage Newborn infants -- Death Stillbirth Anthropologie Totgeburt Fehlgeburt Spontane abortus. Antropologische aspecten. Naissance -- Études transculturelles. Avortement spontané -- Études transculturelles. Nouveau-nés -- Mort -- Études transculturelles. Genre/Form Electronic books Cross-cultural studies Form Electronic book Author Cecil, Rosanne, 1955- ISBN 9781000325638 1000325636 9781000323849 1000323846

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