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Daughters of Hariti - Childbirth and Female Healers in South and Southeast Asia (Paperback)
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Daughters of Hariti - Childbirth and Female Healers in South and Southeast Asia (Paperback)
Series: Theory and Practice in Medical Anthropology
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Hariti is the ancient Indian goddess of childbirth and women
healers, known at one time throughout South and Southeast Asia from
India to Nepal and Bali. Daughters of Hariti looks at her
'daughters' today, female midwives and healers in many different
cultures across the region. It also traces the transformation of
childbirth in these cultures under the impact of Western biomedical
technology, national and international health policies and the
wider factors of social and economic change. The authors ask what
can be done to improve the high rates of maternal and infant deaths
and illnesses still associated with childbirth in most societies in
this area and whether the wholesale replacement of indigenous
knowledge by Western biomedical technology is necessarily a good
thing.
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