The anthropology of pregnancy loss : comparative studies in miscarriage, stillbirth and neonatal death / edited by Rosanne Cecil.
By: Cecil, Rosanne
Language: English Publisher: Oxford : Berg, 1996.Description: xii, 226p. ; 22cm.ISBN: 1859731201
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Includes bibl. references. - Contents: Introduction: an insignificant event? Literary and anthropological perspectives on pregnancy loss. Part I, Ethnographies. Delayed periods and falling babies: the ethnophysiology and politics of pregnancy loss in rural North India / Patricia and Roger Jeffery; Cultural explanations for pregnancy loss in rural Jamaica / E.J. Sobo; Water spirits, medicine-men and witches: the Abelam, Papua New Guinea / A. Winkvist; Explaining pregnancy loss in matrilineal southeast Tanzania / J.A.R. Wembah-Rashid; "Children of the rope" and other aspects of pregnancy loss in Cameroon / O.M.N. Savage; Part II, Other studies. Variation in risk of pregnancy loss / M.A. DeLuca, Paul W. Leslie; "Never such innocence again": irony, nature and technoscience in narratives of pregnancy loss / L.L. Layne; Cultural variations in South African women's experiences of miscarriage / B. Chalmers; Memories of pregnancy loss: recollections of elderly women in Northern Ireland / R. Cecil; "Something more than blood": conflicting accounts of pregnancy loss in 18th century England / Mark Jackson.