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  • Birth in the Age of AIDS

    Women, Reproduction, and HIV/AIDS in India

    by Cecilia Van Hollen ...
    Birth in the Age of AIDS is a vivid and poignant portrayal of the experiences of HIV-positive women in India during pregnancy, birth, and motherhood at the beginning of the 21st century. The government of India, together with global health organizations, established an important public health initiative to prevent HIV transmission from mother to child. While this program, which targets poor women ... Read more

    $32.99 CAD

  • Cancer and the Kali Yuga

    Gender, Inequality, and Health in South India

    by Cecilia Coale Van Hollen ...
    As news spread that more women died from breast and cervical cancer in India than anywhere else in the world in the early twenty-first century, global public health planners accelerated efforts to prevent, screen, and treat these reproductive cancers in low-income Indian communities. Cancer and the Kali Yuga reveals that women who are the targets of these interventions in Tamil Nadu, South India, ... Read more

    $32.99 CAD

  • Birth on the Threshold

    Childbirth and Modernity in South India

    by Cecilia Coale Van Hollen ...
    Even childbirth is affected by globalization—and in India, as elsewhere, the trend is away from home births, assisted by midwives, toward hospital births with increasing reliance on new technologies. And yet, as this work of critical feminist ethnography clearly demonstrates, the global spread of biomedical models of childbirth has not brought forth one monolithic form of "modern birth." Focusing ... Read more

    $38.49 CAD

  • A Companion to the Anthropology of Reproductive Medicine and Technology

    Edited by Cecilia Coale Van Hollen, Nayantara Sheoran Appleton ...
    Series series Wiley Blackwell Companions to Anthropology
    Provides fresh perspectives on the past, present and future-facing contributions of the anthropology of reproduction.A Companion to the Anthropology of Reproductive Medicine and Technology provides a timely and comprehensive overview of the anthropological study of reproductive practices, technologies, and interventions in a global context. Exploring the medical and technological management of ... Read more

    $211.99 CAD

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  • Affliction

    Health, Disease, Poverty

    by Veena Das ...
    Series series Forms of Living
    Affliction inaugurates a novel way of understanding the trajectories of health and disease in the context of poverty. Focusing on low-income neighborhoods in Delhi, it stitches together three different sets of issues.First, it examines the different trajectories of illness: What are the circumstances under which illness is absorbed within the normal and when does it exceed the normal—putting ... Read more

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  • Discounted Life

    The Price of Global Surrogacy in India

    by Sharmila Rudrappa ...
    Winner, American Sociological Association Asia and Asian America Section Best Book on Asia/Transnational AsiaFinalist, 2015 C. Wright Mills Award from the Society for the Study of Social ProblemsIndia is the top provider of surrogacy services in the world, with a multi-million dollar surrogacy industry that continues to grow exponentially, as increasing numbers of couples from developed nations ... Read more

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  • Health, Culture and Religion in South Asia

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    Edited by Assa Doron, Alex Broom ...
    Series series Routledge South Asian History and Culture Series
    Health, Culture and Religion in South Asia brings together top international scholars from a range of social science disciplines to critically explore the interplay of local cultural and religious practices in the delivery and experiences of health in South Asia. This groundbreaking text provides much needed insight into the relationships between health, culture, community, livelihood, and the ... Read more

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  • Our Pictures, Our Words

    A Visual Journey Through the Women's Movement

    by Laxmi Murthy, Rajashri Dasgupta ...
    Vibrant, dynamic, spirited and forceful. The contemporary women’s movement in India, which began in the late 1970s protested against the dark times, the violence and the misogyny. It also colourfully celebrated liberation, solidarity among women and breaking the shackles of patriarchy. It sang, performed and painted, to draw attention to the burning issues of the time: dowry death, widow ... Read more

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    This book is about Nepal, a landlocked country with limited resources, which was isolated from the outside world until early 1950s. It describes how the country has progressed through the initial stages of demographic and epidemiological transitions to its current position along these important societal dimensions in the context of incremental socioeconomic development and increased geographic ... Read more

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  • Yoga, the Body, and Embodied Social Change

    An Intersectional Feminist Analysis

    by Ariane M. Balizet, Jacoby Ballard, Diana York Blaine, Mary Bunn, Beth S. Catlett, Kimberly Dark, Lauren Eckstrom, Jillian Ford, Thalia González, Marcelle M. Haddix, Carol Horton, Kerrie Kauer, Roopa Kaushik-Brown, Karishma Kripalani, Punam Mehta, Steffany Moonaz, Whitney Myers, Enoch H. Page, Sarah L. Schrank, Maria Velazquez, Jennifer Musial ...
    Yoga, the Body, and Embodied Social Change is the first collection to gather together prominent scholars on yoga and the body. Using an intersectional lens, the essays examine yoga in the United States as a complex cultural phenomenon that reveals racial, economic, gendered, and sexual politics of the body. From discussions of the stereotypical yoga body to analyses of pivotal court cases, Yoga, ... Read more

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  • A Companion to Bioethics

    Edited by Helga Kuhse, Peter Singer ...
    Series series Wiley Companions to Philosophy
    This second edition of A Companion to Bioethics, fully revised and updated to reflect the current issues and developments in the field, covers all the material that the reader needs to thoroughly grasp the ideas and debates involved in bioethics.Thematically organized around an unparalleled range of issues, including discussion of the moral status of embryos and fetuses, new genetics, life and ... Read more

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