Embodying culture : pregnancy in Japan and Israel /
Embodying Culture is an ethnographically grounded exploration of pregnancy in two different culturesùJapan and Israelùboth of which medicalize pregnancy. Tsipy Ivryfocuses on "low-risk" or "normal" pregnancies, using cultural comparison to explorethe complex relations among eth...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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New Brunswick, N.J. :
Rutgers University Press,
©2010.
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Colección: | Studies in medical anthropology.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Sumario: | Embodying Culture is an ethnographically grounded exploration of pregnancy in two different culturesùJapan and Israelùboth of which medicalize pregnancy. Tsipy Ivryfocuses on "low-risk" or "normal" pregnancies, using cultural comparison to explorethe complex relations among ethnic ideas about procreation, local reproductive politics, medical models of pregnancy care, and local modes of maternal agency. |
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Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (x, 298 pages) |
Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
ISBN: | 9780813548302 0813548306 9781280493492 1280493496 |