
Risk, Reproduction and Narratives of Experience
Vanderbilt University Press
Published on 15. April 2012
Book
Paperback/Softback
256 pages
978-0-8265-1820-0 (ISBN)
Description
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.""
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Language
English
Place of publication
Tennessee
United States
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Paperback (trade)
Dimensions
Height: 254 mm
Width: 178 mm
Thickness: 14 mm
Weight
451 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-8265-1820-0 (9780826518200)
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Lauren Fordyce is a Visiting Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Bucknell University. AmÃnata Maraesa is Lecturer in the Department of Anthropology at Hunter College of the City University of New York and the Department of Latin American and Puerto Rican Studies at Lehman College of the City University of New York.