Alaka Basu

The Sociocultural and Political Aspects of Abortion

Global Perspectives

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Seeking to define the ways various cultures view pregnancy, miscarriage, and abortion, this multidisciplinary collection of essays seeks to illustrate how these views influence policy decisions and practices regarding abortion around the world. Putting questions of pro-life and pro-choice aside, the contributors provide demographic coverage of the issues involved and contextualize some of the personal realities that underlie the approximately 50 million abortions that are believed to take place yearly worldwide. While the political and social climates in which women seek abortions vary from place to place, many of the chapters try to understand the moral implications that guide the decision to end a pregnancy from the perspective of the those who seek to do so. Focusing primarily on developing nations, this important contribution to the literature on abortion provides readers with a careful overview of the different meanings attached to abortion depending on the cultural, social, and political climate. Areas covered include Tanzania, Bangladesh, West Africa, Ghana, Romania, Russia, Mexico, and Nigeria. General chapters on induced abortion, demographic research and abortion policy, and social pressures to abort are also included. This unique approach to the study of abortion will contribute to a greater understanding of a prominent social issue.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury 3PL
• Seitenzahl: 286
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Januar 2003
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 598g
• ISBN-13: 9780275977283
• ISBN-10: 0275977285
• Artikelnr.: 21516438

Autorenporträt

Alaka Basu

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Abortion in a Changing World by John C. Caldwell and Pat
Caldwell Abortion: A World-Wide Overview by Susheela Singh, Stanley K.
Henshaw, and Kathleen Bernsten The Challenge of Induced Abortion Research:
A Transdisciplinary Perspective by Axel I. Mundigo Demographic Research and
Abortion Policy: Limits to the Use of Statistics by Andrzej Kulczucki Kutoa
Mimba: Debates about Schoolgirl Abortion in Machame, Tanzania by Amy
Stambach Cleaning the Belly: Managing Menstrual Health in Guinea, West
Africa by Elise Levin Changing Assessments of Abortion in a Northern
Nigerian Town by Elisha P. Renne The Role of Local herbs in the Recent
Fertility Decline in Ghana: Contraceptives or Aborrifacients? by John
Anarfi Menstrual Regulation in Bangladesh by Sajeda Amin The Impact of
Policy Changes on Fertility, Abortion, and Contraceptive Use in Romania by
Florina Serbabescu, et al. Determinants of Abortion and Contraceptive
Behavior in Russia by Inge Hutter Abortion Legislation in Mexico in the
Face of a Changing Sociodemographic and Political Context by Susana Lerner
and Guadalupe Salas The Role of Pharmacists and Market Herb Vendors as
Abortifacient Providers in Mexico City by Susan Pick, et al. The Social
Pressure to Abort by Chantal Blayo and Yves Blayo Concluding Remarks: The
Role of Ambiguity by Alaka Malwade Basu