Cultural perspectives on reproductive health / edited by Carla Makhlouf Obermeyer.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Based on a seminar organised by the Reproductive Health Committee of the International Union for the Scientific Study of Population at Kwa Maritane, South Africa in June 1997.

Machine generated contents note: 1. Weakness ('Ashaktapana') and Reproductive Health among Women -- in a Slum Population in Mumbai -- Radhika Ramasubban and Bhanwar Rishyasringa -- 2. Nutrition and Reproduction: The Socio-cultural Context of -- Food Behaviour in Rural South India -- Inge Hutter -- 3. 'Rariu Doesn't Rhyme with Western Medicine': Lay Beliefs and -- Illness Networks in Kenya -- Nancy Luke, Ina Warriner, and Susan Cotts Watkins -- 4. Money, Marriage, and Morality: Constraints on IVF Treatment-Seeking -- among Infertile Egyptian Couples -- Marcia C. Inhorn -- 5. Risk, Vulnerability, Harm Reduction: Preventing STIs in -- Southeast Asia by Antibiotic Prophylaxis, a Misguided Practice -- Mark Nichter -- Part II. Discourse, Practice, and Reproductive Choices -- 6. Managing 'the Missing Girls' in Chinese Population Discourse -- Susan Greenhalgh -- 7 Reproductive Health Counselling in the Islamic Republic of -- Iran: The Role of Women Mullahs -- Homa Hoodfar -- 8. Abortion in Egypt: Official Constraints and Popular Practices -- Dale Huntington -- 9. The Reproductive Consequences of Shifting Ethnic Identity in -- South Africa -- Carol E. Kaufman and Deborah James -- 10. Critical Perspectives: The Feminist Critique of Medicine, -- Medicalization, and the Making of Breast Implant Policy -- Nora Jacobson -- Part III. Culture, Reproduction, and Rights -- 11. Two Cultural Approaches for Understanding the Reproductive Health -- Consequences of Marital Violence in an Indian Area of Mexico -- Soledad Gonzdlez Montes -- 12. Eliminating Stigmatization: Application of the New Genetics in Japan -- Margaret Lock -- 13. Re-theorizing Reproductive Health and Rights in the Light -- of Feminist Cross-cultural Research -- Rosalind P. Petchesky -- 14. Culturalism as Ideology -- Didier Fassin -- Index.