Where there is no midwife
Subtitle: birth and loss in rural India
By: Sarah Pinto.
Edition: 1st hardcover ed.
Series: Fertility, reproduction and sexuality -- v. 10
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781845453107
Subjects: Childbirth -- India.; Rural health -- India.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: value: Work : where there is no midwife; value: Bodies : the poisonous lotus; value: Medicine : development without institutions; value: Seeing : visuality in pregnancy; value: Dying : in the big, big hands of god; value: Ideals : ciphers of tradition; value: Talk : casting desire; value: Epilogue.