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Baloch Midwives: Contesting Global Perceptions of Midwifery in Balochistan, Pakistan (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781032571195)
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Fouzieyha Towghi
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xAs the first major ethnography of Baloch midwives in Pakistan, this book draws on long-term ethnographic research in Balochistan province, showing how dhīnabogs/dheenabogs (Baloch midwives ranging in age from about 30 to 80) and their dhīnabogirī (midwifery) aid women and their kin through labor and postpartum recovery.
Author: Fouzieyha Towghi
ISBN-10: 1032571195
ISBN-13: 9781032571195
Publisher: Routledge
Language: English
Published: 03/29/2024
Pages: 324
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.39lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.81d
By Fouzieyha Towghi
xFouzieyha Towghi is a medical anthropologist and an honorary academic in the School of Archaeology and Anthropology, Australian National University, and the recipient of the 2015 Rudolph Virchow Professional Award from the Society for Medical Anthropology for her 2014 article, "Normalizing Off-Label Experiments and the Pharmaceuticalization of Homebirths in Pakistan." Drawing from over ten years of ethnographic research, her scholarship has focused on the politics of reproduction, medicine, science, and biomedical technologies and their implications for women's health and lives in South Asia.
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