Where There Is No Midwife: Birth and Loss in Rural India

by Sarah Pinto

Book Overview

In the Sitapurdistrict of Uttar Pradesh, an agricultural region with high rates of infant mortality, maternal health services are poor while family planning efforts are intensive. By following the daily lives of women in this setting, the author considers the women's own experiences of birth and infant death, their ways of making-do, and the hierarchies they create and contend with. This book develops an approach to the care that focuses on emotion,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0857451537
• ISBN13: 9780857451538
• Release Date: November 2011
• Publisher: Berghahn Books
• Length: 342 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"