Embodying culture : pregnancy in Japan and Israel / / Tsipy Ivry.
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| Superior document: | Studies in medical anthropology |
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| Year of Publication: | 2010 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Studies in medical anthropology.
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| Physical Description: | x, 298 p. |
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: pregnancy, cultural comparison, multisited ethnographies
- The doctoring of pregnancy
- A risky business: pregnancy in the eyes of Israeli ob-gyns
- The twofold structure of Japanese prenatal care
- Experiencing pregnancy
- The path of bonding
- The path of ambiguity
- Embodying culture: toward an anthropology of pregnancy
- Juxtapositions
- Pregnant with meaning.