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Exploring the Dirty Side of Women's Health (Paperback, New Ed)
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Exploring the Dirty Side of Women's Health (Paperback, New Ed)
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Researchers from seven countries bring together key issues in
women's health, social anthropology and midwifery, thus creating a
wider picture than is usually available to students. Pollution is
used as a concept to highlight and help to explain phenomena in
women's health which are usually unexamined, but which can be
highly disruptive of service provision and personal well being.
Such phenomena often concern relationships between key actors,
self-image and professional and personal status.
Particular issues will be addressed in depth by well known authors
from several countries. For example: the chapters on breast feeding
examine issues which form major obstacles to increasing the uptake
of breasted but which are not being considered by policy makers.
This analysis enables voices to be heard which are important but
often ignored. The section on the dai, for instance, addresses
birth in India and Pakistan from the viewpoint of those who deliver
most babies in those countries, exploring the knowledge and needs
which they share with their clients which do not completely fit
with efforts to increase modern service provision.
This book addresses things out of place; from bodily leakage to
outdated religious practices, from diagnoses that disrupt our
self-image to beliefs and practices which undermine health service
provision. As such its aim is to use the contradictions in our
thinking around pollution and power to stimulate rethinking around
women's health.
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