Ethnography of fertility and birth

Author(s)

• MacCormack, Carol P.

Bibliographic Information

Ethnography of fertility and birth

edited by Carol P. MacCormack

Waveland Press, c1994

2nd ed

Note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Contents of Works

• Biological, cultural, and social meanings of fertility and birth / C.P. MacCormack
• Sexual power and fertility in Sri Lanka / D.B. McGilvray
• Enga birth, maturation, and survival / B.M. Gray
• Health, fertility, and birth in Moyamba District, Sierra Leone / C.P. MacCormack
• Interpretations of infertility / V. Ebin
• Folk medicine and fertility / U. MacLean
• The social context of birth / S. Kitzinger
• Childbirth and change / S. Cosminsky
• Pregnancy and birth as rites of passage for two groups of women in Britain / H. Homans
• Childbirth in a scientific and industrial society / A.D. Jones and C. Dougherty

Details

• NCID: BA55830270
• ISBN:
  • 0881338176
• LCCN: 95150329
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Prospect Heights, Ill.
• Pages/Volumes: xii, 283 p.
• Size: 23 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : GN482.1
  • DC20 : 304.6/3
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Childbirth -- Social aspects
  • LCSH : Fertility, Human
  • LCSH : Traditional medicine