Bodies of Knowledge: The Medicalization of Reproduction in Greece

by Eugenia Georges

Book Overview

Recipient of the 2006 Norman L. and Roselea J. Goldberg Prize for the best project in the area of medicine.

The author, a second-generation Greek American, returned to Greece with her young daughter to do fieldwork over the course of a decade. Focusing on Rhodes, an island that blends continuity with the past and rapid social change in often unexpected ways, she interviewed over a hundred women, doctors, and midwives about issues of...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0826515983
• ISBN13: 9780826515988
• Release Date: December 2008
• Publisher: Vanderbilt University Press
• Length: 376 Pages
• Weight: 1.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.8" x 9.9"