Risk, reproduction, and narratives of experience

Fordyce, Lauren. (Added Author). Maraësa, Aminata. (Added Author).

Record details

ISBN: 1280875178 (MyiLibrary)
ISBN: 9781280875175 (MyiLibrary)
ISBN: 0826518206 (pbk. edition : alk. paper)
ISBN: 9780826518200 (pbk. edition : alk. paper)
ISBN: 0826518192 (cloth edition : alk. paper)
ISBN: 9780826518194 (cloth edition : alk. paper)
ISBN: 9780826518217 (electronic bk.)
ISBN: 0826518214 (electronic bk.)
Physical Description: 1 online resource (xiii, 241 p.)
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Publisher: Nashville : Vanderbilt University Press, c2012

Content descriptions

General Note:	CatMonthString:jan.13 Multi-User. CatBulkString:jan.10.13
Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	Conceiving risk in K'iche' Maya reproduction / Matthew R. Dudgeon -- Failing to see the danger: conceptions of pregnancy and care practices among Mexican Immigrant women in New York City / Alyshia Gálvez -- The vital conjuncture of methamphetamine-involved pregnancy: objective risks and subjective realities / Alison B. Hamilton -- Birth and blame: Guatemalan midwives and reproductive risk / Sheila Cosminsky -- "They don't know anything": how medical authority constructs perceptions of reproductive risk among low-income mothers in Mexico / Vania Smith-Oka -- Local contours of reproductive risk and responsibility in rural Oaxaca / Rebecca Howes-Mischel -- New countryside, new family: the discourses of reproductive risk in postsocialist rural China / Qingyan Ma -- Negotiating risk and the politics of responsibility: mothers and young child health among datoga pastoralists in northern Tanzania / Alyson G. Young -- Shifting maternal responsibilities and the trajectory of blame in northern Ghana / Aaron R. Denham -- Imaging maternal responsibility: prenatal diagnosis and ultrasound among Haitians in South Florida / Lauren Fordyce -- A competition over reproductive authority: prenatal risk assessment in southern Belize / Aminata Maraesa.
Terms Governing Use and Reproduction Note:	Access restricted by subscription. Access requires VIU IP addresses and is restricted to VIU students, faculty and staff.