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Risk, Reproduction and Narratives of Experience
Contributor(s): Fordyce, Lauren (Editor), Maraesa, Aminata (Editor)
ISBN: 0826518192     ISBN-13: 9780826518194
Publisher: Vanderbilt University Press
OUR PRICE:   $98.95  
Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats
Published: April 2012
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BISAC Categories:
- Medical | Health Care Delivery
- Health & Fitness | Women's Health - General
- Social Science | Women's Studies
Dewey: 362.198
LCCN: 2011018130
Physical Information: 0.9" H x 7.2" W x 10" (1.41 lbs) 256 pages
Themes:
- Sex & Gender - Feminine
- Topical - Health & Fitness
- Religious Orientation - Christian
 
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As Carole Browner explains in her foreword: These chapters compellingly reveal that although we anthropologists tend to speak of biomedicine in hegemonic terms, in fact its penetration is quite variable and often ambivalently met. . . . Risk, Reproduction, and Narratives of Experience sheds new light on a troubling core aspect of medicalization processes, which simultaneously render pregnant women more docile subjects even as they are impelled to actively engage with biomedicalized prenatal care regimes. . . . We also see that a consummate means by which states seek to consolidate power in the reproductive realm is through expansion of the biomedical concept of risk. This critical observation emerges repeatedly in this collection.

Contributor Bio(s): Fordyce, Lauren: - Lauren Fordyce is a Visiting Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Bucknell University.Maraesa, Aminata: - Aminata Maraesa is a Lecturer in the Department of Anthropology at Hunter College of the City University of New York and the Department of Latin American and Puerto Rican Studies at Lehman College of the City University of New York.