Daughters of Hariti : Childbirth and Female Healers in South and Southeast Asia
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Format
Hardback or Cased Book
Book Series
Theory and Practice in Medical Anthropology
ISBN-10
0415277922
ISBN-13
9780415277921
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint
Routledge
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
May 9th, 2002
Print length
320 Pages
Weight
658 grams
Product Classification:
HinduismCultural studiesGender studies: womenAnthropology
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Is Western medical technology necessarily a good thing, or can it be dangerous? This book investigates its impact on midwives, healers and mothers giving birth in India today.
Hariti is the ancient Indian goddess of childbirth and women healers, known at one time throughout South and Southeast Asia from India to Nepal and Bali. Daughters of Hariti looks at her ''daughters'' today, female midwives and healers in many different cultures across the region. It also traces the transformation of childbirth in these cultures under the impact of Western biomedical technology, national and international health policies and the wider factors of social and economic change. The authors ask what can be done to improve the high rates of maternal and infant deaths and illnesses still associated with childbirth in most societies in this area and whether the wholesale replacement of indigenous knowledge by Western biomedical technology is necessarily a good thing.
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