"This collection examines enduring and topical questions in sexual and reproductive health in a range of contemporary Asian cultures. Beliefs and practices surrounding conception, pregnancy, birth and confinement are studied in culturally specific contexts in Japan, Taiwan and the Philippines, Thailand, Laos, Cambodia and Indonesia. Widely applicable health issues are also addressed, including the perception and management of HIV/AIDS, experiences of menopause and the interaction of cosmopolitan (""western"") medicine with traditional healthcare."
By:
Pranee Liamputtong Rice,
Lenore Manderson,
Pranee Liamputtong Rice
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions:
Height: 216mm,
Width: 156mm,
Spine: 267mm
Weight: 760g
ISBN: 9789057020216
ISBN 10: 9057020211
Pages: 326
Publication Date: 01 September 1997
Audience:
College/higher education
,
Professional and scholarly
,
Professional & Vocational
,
A / AS level
,
Further / Higher Education
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Introduction; I: Birth and Its Inflections; 1: Japanese Women's Views on Having Children: The Concepts of Sazu-Karu and Tsuku-Ru; 2: Of Blood and Foetuses: Female Fertility and Women's Reproductive Health in a North Balinese Village; 3: Health Beliefs and the Use of Antenatal Care Among Pregnant Women in Southern Thailand; 4: Use of Health Services by Filipino Women During Childbearing Episodes; II: From Her Womb ....; 5: Journey to the Land of Light: Birth Among Hmong Women; 6: A Baby is Born in Site 2 Camp: Pregnancy, Birth and Confinement Among Cambodian Refugee Women; 7: Healers and Modern Health Services: Antenatal, Birthing and Postpartum Care in Rural East Lombok, Indonesia; 8: Women as Good Citizens: Maternal and Child Health in a Sasak Village; 9: Tso Yueh-Tzu (Sitting the Month) in Contemporary Taiwan; III: The Workings of the Body: Issues of Sexual Health; 10: White Blood and Falling Wombs: Ethnogynaecology in Northeast Thailand; 11: “No Problem”: Reproductive Tract Infections in Indonesia; 12: Blood Beliefs in a Transitional Culture of Northeastern Thailand; 13: Only When I Have Borne all my Children!: The Menopause in Hmong Women; 14: “Vectors” and “Protectors”: Women and HIV/AIDS in the Lao People's Democratic Republic
Pranee Liamputtong Rice, Lenore Manderson
