
Risk, Reproduction, and Narratives of Experience
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- Cover
- Title Page
- Table of Contents
- Foreword
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: The Development of Discourses Surrounding Reproductive Risks
- I. Complications in Measuring and Defining Risk
- 1. Conceiving Risk in K'iche' Maya Reproduction
- 2. Failing to See the Danger: Conceptions of Pregnancy and Care Practices among Mexican Immigrant Women in New York City
- 3. The Vital Conjuncture of Methamphetamine-Involved Pregnancy: Objective Risks and Subjective Realities
- II. Biopolitical Narratives of Risk and Responsibility
- 4. Birth and Blame: Guatemalan Midwives and Reproductive Risk
- 5. "They Don't Know Anything": How Medical Authority Constructs Perceptions of Reproductive Risk among Low-Income Mothers in Mexico
- 6. Local Contours of Reproductive Risk and Responsibility in Rural Oaxaca
- 7. New Countryside, New Family: The Discourses of Reproductive Risk in Postsocialist Rural China
- III. Struggles over the Embodiment of Reproductive Risk
- 8. Negotiating Risk and the Politics of Responsibility: Mothers and Young Child Health among Datoga Pastoralists in Northern Tanzania
- 9. Shifting Maternal Responsibilities and the Trajectory of Blame in Northern Ghana
- 10. Imaging Maternal Responsibility: Prenatal Diagnosis and Ultrasound among Haitians in South Florida
- 11. A Competition over Reproductive Authority: Prenatal Risk Assessment in Southern Belize
- Afterword
- Contributors
- Index
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