In this Book
- Risk, Reproduction, and Narratives of Experience
- Book
- 2012
- Published by: Vanderbilt University Press
summary
As Carole Browner explains in her foreword: "These chapters compellingly reveal that although we anthropologists tend to speak of biomedicine in hegemonic terms, in fact its penetration is quite variable and often ambivalently met. . . . Risk, Reproduction, and Narratives of Experience sheds new light on a troubling core aspect of medicalization processes, which simultaneously render pregnant women more docile subjects even as they are impelled to actively engage with biomedicalized prenatal care regimes. . . . We also see that a consummate means by which states seek to consolidate power in the reproductive realm is through expansion of the biomedical concept of risk. This critical observation emerges repeatedly in this collection."
Table of Contents
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- Acknowledgments
- p. xiii
- I. Complications in Measuring and Defining Risk
- II. Biopolitical Narratives of Risk and Responsibility
- III. Struggles over the Embodiment of Reproductive Risk
- Contributors
- pp. 235-236
Additional Information
ISBN
9780826518217
Related ISBN(s)
9780826518194, 9780826518200
MARC Record
OCLC
800935815
Pages
256
Launched on MUSE
2012-08-07
Language
English
Open Access
No