Abortion in Asia
Subtitle: local dilemmas, global politics
By: edited by Andrea Whittaker.
Contributors: Whittaker, Andrea.
Edition: 1st ed.
Series: Fertility, reproduction, and sexuality -- v. 20
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781845457341
Subjects: Abortion -- Asia; Abortion -- Government policy -- Asia; Reproductive rights -- Asia; Women's rights -- Asia; Women -- Social conditions -- Asia
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Abortion in Asia: an overview / Andrea Whittaker; title: Contraceptive use and unsafe abortion in rural Cambodia / Elizabeth Hoban, Tung Rathavy and Phirun Lam; title: Between remembering and forgetting : post-diagnostic abortions in Hanoi; title: Vietnam / Tine M. Gammeltoft; title: Violence, poverty, and "weakness: : interpersonal and institutional reasons why Burmese women on the Thai border utilise abortion / Suzanne Belton; title: Quality of care and pregnancy terminations for adolescent women in urban slums, Bangladesh / Sabina Faiz Rashid; title: Choosing abortion providers in rural Tamil Nadu : balancing costs and quality of care / Lakshmi Ramachandar and Pertti J. Pelto; title: Abortion in Vietnam : history, culture, and politics collide in the era of Doi Moi / Merrill Wolf, Phan Bich Thuy, Alyson Hyman and Amanda Huber; title: Abortion and politics in Indonesia / Terence H Hull and Ninuk Widyantoro; title: Access to abortion services in Malaysia : a rights-based approach / Rashidah Abdullah and Yut-Lin Wong; title: Improving access to safe termination of pregnancy in Thailand : an analysis of the policy development during 1999 to 2006 / Nongluk Boonthai, Sripen Tantivess, Viroj Tangcharoensathien and Kamheang Chaturachinda; title: Epilogue : further challenges / Andrea Whittaker.