E Teman - Medical Anthropology Quarterly, 2003 - Wiley Online Library
In this article, I draw on anthropological and feminist scholarship on the body and the nature/culture divide as a framework for understanding the place of surrogate mothers in a …
Breastwork delivers an original and personal approach to a near-universal practice and doesn't shy from controversy or controversial topics, such as sexual desire and …
This book is all about reproductive genetics, a sociological concept developed to define the use of DNA-based technologies in the medical management and supervision of …
Childbirth is both an embodied and symbolic process, and the home and the hospital have been the shifting and contested sites of childbirth in contemporary discourses of birth in the …
Faith and the Pursuit of Health explores how Pentecostal Christians manage chronic illness in ways that sheds light on health disparities and social suffering in Samoa, a place where …
E Burns - The Journal of Perinatal Education, 2014 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
The discursive construction of the human placenta varies greatly between hospital and home-birthing contexts. The former, driven by medicolegal discourse, defines the placenta …
J Hardin - Medical Anthropology, 2016 - Taylor & Francis
Drawing on fieldwork in independent Samoa, in this article, I analyze the temporal dimensions of evangelical Christian healing of metabolic disorders. I explore how those …
R Shaw, C Kitzinger - Social Science & Medicine, 2005 - Elsevier
In the UK a woman has the right to decide to give birth at home, irrespective of whether she is expecting her first or a subsequent child and of any perceived 'risk'factors. However, the …
Социальные изменения, произошедшие в российском обществе в 1990-е годы, проявлялись в самых разных формах, в том числе и в оживлении религиозной жизни …