Contemporary, historical and oral-history accounts from regions as diverse as rural North India, urban America, South Africa and Northern Ireland, provide a fascinating insight into the experience and management of miscarriage across a number of different cultures.
Contemporary, historical and oral-history accounts from regions as diverse as rural North India, urban America, South Africa and Northern Ireland, provide a fascinating insight into the experience and management of miscarriage across a number of different cultures.
Rosanne Cecil Research Fellow,Department of Social Anthropology, The Queen's University of Belfast
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Contents: R. Cecil, Introduction: An Insignificant Event? Literary and Anthropological Perspectives on Pregnancy Loss P. Jeffery and R. Jeffery, Delayed Periods and Falling Babies: The Ethnophysiology and Politics of Pregnancy Loss in Rural North India E. Sobo, Cultural Explanations for Pregnancy Loss in Rural Jamaica A. Winkvist, Water Spirits, Medicinemen and Witches: Avenues to Successful Reproduction among the Abelam, Papua New Guinea J.A.R. Wembah Rashid, Explaining Pregnancy Loss in Matrilineal Southeastern Tanzania O.M. Njikam Savage, 'Children of the Rope' and Other Aspects of Pregnancy Loss in Cameroon M. DeLuca and P.W. Leslie, Variation in Risk of Pregnancy Loss L.L. Layne, 'Never Such Innocence Again': Irony, Nature, and Technoscience in Narratives of Pregnancy Loss B. Chalmers, Cultural Variations in South African Women's Experiences of Miscarriage: Implications for Clinical Care R. Cecil, Memories of Pregnancy Loss: Recollections of Elderly Women in Northern Ireland M. Jackson, 'Something More Than Blood': Conflicting Accounts of Pregnancy Loss in 18th Century England
Contents: R. Cecil, Introduction: An Insignificant Event? Literary and Anthropological Perspectives on Pregnancy Loss P. Jeffery and R. Jeffery, Delayed Periods and Falling Babies: The Ethnophysiology and Politics of Pregnancy Loss in Rural North India E. Sobo, Cultural Explanations for Pregnancy Loss in Rural Jamaica A. Winkvist, Water Spirits, Medicinemen and Witches: Avenues to Successful Reproduction among the Abelam, Papua New Guinea J.A.R. Wembah Rashid, Explaining Pregnancy Loss in Matrilineal Southeastern Tanzania O.M. Njikam Savage, 'Children of the Rope' and Other Aspects of Pregnancy Loss in Cameroon M. DeLuca and P.W. Leslie, Variation in Risk of Pregnancy Loss L.L. Layne, 'Never Such Innocence Again': Irony, Nature, and Technoscience in Narratives of Pregnancy Loss B. Chalmers, Cultural Variations in South African Women's Experiences of Miscarriage: Implications for Clinical Care R. Cecil, Memories of Pregnancy Loss: Recollections of Elderly Women in Northern Ireland M. Jackson, 'Something More Than Blood': Conflicting Accounts of Pregnancy Loss in 18th Century England
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