Maternity and Reproductive Health in Asian Societies.

This collection examines enduring and topical questions in sexual and reproductive health in a range of contemporary Asian cultures. Beliefs and practices surrounding conception, pregnancy, birth, and confinement are studies in culturally specific contexts in Japan, Taiwan, the Philippines, Thailand...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Rice, Pranee and Manderson
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Hoboken : Taylor and Francis, 2014.
Temas:
Human reproduction > Southeast Asia.
Child care > Southeast Asia.
Maternal health services > Southeast Asia.
Obstetrics > Southeast Asia.
Sexual health > Southeast Asia.
Reproduction humaine > Asie du Sud-Est.
Obstétrique > Asie du Sud-Est.
Hygiène sexuelle > Asie du Sud-Est.
Child care
Human reproduction
Maternal health services
Obstetrics
Sexual health
Southeast Asia
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Illustrations; List of Tables; Acknowledgments; Introduction; PART I: BIRTH AND ITS INFLECTIONS; ONE Japanese women's views on having children: the concepts of sazu-kara and tsuku-ru; TWO Of blood and foetuses: female fertility and women's reproductive health in a North Balinese village; THREE Health beliefs and the use of antenatal care among pregnant women in southern Thailand; FOUR Use of health services by Filipino women during childbearing episodes; PART II: FROM HER WOMB . . .; FIVE Journey to the land of light: birth among Hmong women.
  • SIX A baby is born in Site 2 Camp: pregnancy, birth and confinement among Cambodian refugee womenSEVEN Healers and modern health services: antenatal, birthing and postpartum care in rural East Lombok, Indonesia; EIGHT Women as ""good citizens"": maternal and child health in a Sasak village; NINE Tso Yueh-tzu (sitting the month) in contemporary Taiwan; PART III: THE WORKINGS OF THE BODY: ISSUES OF SEXUAL HEALTH; TEN White blood and falling wombs: ethnogynaecology in northeast Thailand; ELEVEN ""No problem"": reproductive tract infections in Indonesia.
  • TWELVE Blood beliefs in a transitional culture in northeastern ThailandTHIRTEEN Only when I have borne all my children!: the menopause in Hmong women; FOURTEEN ""Vectors"" and ""Protectors"": women and HIV/AIDS in the Lao Peoples Democratic Republic; Notes on Contributors; Index.

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