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Daughters of Hariti
Childbirth and Female Healers in South and Southeast Asia
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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.
Taylor and Francis; January 2013
321 pages; ISBN 9781134471348
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321 pages; ISBN 9781134471348
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Subject categories
- Academic > Anthropology > Ethnology. Social and cultural anthropology > Cultural traits, customs, and institutions > Psychological anthropology
- Academic > Anthropology > Manners and customs (General) > Customs relative to private life, Including children, marriage, eating and drinking, funeral customs, etc.
- Academic > Health Sciences > Medicine as a profession. Physicians
- Academic > Health Sciences > Medicine and the humanities. Medicine and disease in relation to history, literature, etc.
- Social Science > Anthropology > Cultural
- Medicine > Reproductive Medicine & Technology
- Science > Biology
ISBNs
0203220218
9780203220214
9780415277921
9781134471348
9781134471355

