Risk, Reproduction and Narratives of Experience (Paperback)

As Carole Browner explains in her foreword: ""These chapters compellingly reveal that although we anthropologists tend to speak of biomedicine in hegemonic terms, in fact its penetration is quite variable and often ambivalently met. . . . Risk, Reproduction, and Narratives of Experience sheds new light on a troubling core aspect of medicalisation processes, which simultaneously render pregnant women more docile subjects even as they are impelled to actively engage with biomedicalised prenatal care regimes. . . . We also see that a consummate means by which states seek to consolidate power in the reproductive realm is through expansion of the biomedical concept of risk. This critical observation emerges repeatedly in this collection.""

General

Imprint:	Vanderbilt University Press
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	April 2012
First published:	May 2012
Editors:	Lauren Fordyce • Aminata Maraesa
Foreword by:	Carole Browner
Afterword by:	Rayna Rapp
Dimensions:	254 x 178 x 18mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	256
ISBN-13:	978-0-8265-1820-0
Categories:	Books > Medicine > General issues > Health systems & services > General Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Gender studies > Women's studies > General
LSN:	0-8265-1820-6
Barcode:	9780826518200

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