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Table of Contents:

• Birth and the Big Bad Wolf: An Evolutionary Perspective / Robbie Davis-Floyd and Melissa Cheyney
• Breastfeeding and Child Spacing / Rebecca Sundhagen
• Culturally Diverse Women Giving Birth: Their Stories / Lynn Clark Callister and Inaam Khalaf
• A History of Western Medicine, Labor, and Birth / Pamela K. Stone
• Childbirth in China / Travis Anna Harvey and Lila Buckley
• Childbirth Among Hong Kong Chinese / Ip Wan-Yim
• Childbirth in Korea / Sukhee Ahn
• Childbirth in Japan / Satoko Yanagisawa
• A Sacramental Theory of Childbirth in India / Harish Naraindas
• Rural Midwives in South India: The Politics of Bodily Knowledge / Kalpana Ram
• Constructions of Birth in Bangladesh / Kaosar Afsana and Sabina Faiz Rashid
• Pregnancy and Childbirth in Nepal: women's Role and Decision-Making Power / Pratima P. Acharya and Dilu Rimal
• Pregnancy and Childbirth in Tibet: Knowledge, Perspectives, and Practices / Sienna R. Craig
• Nyob Nruab Hlis: Thirty Days Confinement in Hmong Culture / Pranee Liamputtong
• Pregnancy, Childbirth and Traditional Beliefs and Practices in Chiang Mai, Northern Thailand / Pranee Liamputtong
• Childbirth Experience in the Negev, The Southern Region of Israel / Iris Ohel and Eyal Sheiner
• Childbirth and Maternal Mortality in Morocco: The Role of Midwives / Marie Hatem, Fatima Temmar and Bilkis Vissandjee
• Childbirth in Zimbabwe / Thubelihle Mathole and Simukai Shamu
• Childbirth in Nigeria / Hadiza Shehu Galadanci and Suwaiba Ibrahim Sani
• Childbirth in Tanzania: Individual, Family, Community / David P. Urassa, Andrea B. Pembe and Bruno F. Sunguya

• Culture, Pregnancy and Childbirth in Uganda: Surviving the Women's Battle / Grace Bantebya Kyomuhendo
• Childbirth Experiences in Malawi / Lennie Adeline Kamwendo
• Navajo Birth: A Bridge Between the Past and the Future / R. Cruz Begay
• Childbirth in the Mayan Communities / Linda V. Walsh
• Converting Birth on Simbo, Western Solomon Islands / Christine Dureau
• Childbirth in Australia: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Women / Sue Kildea and M. Wardaguga.

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Contributors:

Selin, Helaine, 1946-

Stone, Pamela Kendall

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Related Series:

Science across cultures

Subjects:

Childbirth — Cross-cultural studies

Childbirth

Genres:

Cross-cultural studies

General Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index

Physical Description:

xvii, 314 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Call Numbers:

GN482.1 .C53 2009

ISBNs:

9789048125982
9048125987

OCLC Numbers:

592432333
429023407 [Invalid]