Autonomy is considered essential for decision-making in a range of health care situations,
from health care seeking and utilization to choosing among treatment options. Evidence …

" Reproduction" is a slippery concept, connoting parturition, Marxist notions of household
sustenance and constitution of a labor force, and ideologies that support the continuity of …

As nation-states in the Northern Hemisphere experience economic crisis, political corruption
and racial tension, it seems as though they might be'evolving'into the kind of societies …

" Cathy Riessman is the leading figure in narrative research and her new book is a delight.
Covering basic issues of transcription and research credibility as well as visual data and …

The dimensions of women's autonomy and their relationship to maternal health care
utilization were investigated in a probability sample of 300 women in Varanasi, India. We …

Nurse–patient relationships are a substantially neglected area of empirical research, the
more so in developing than developed countries. Although nursing discourse usually …

In many South Asian oral traditions, herons are viewed as duplicitous and conniving. These
traditions tend also to view women as fragmented identities, dangerously split between …

Western constructs giving precedence to ideas over experience have, for long, dominated
theorization in Indian social sciences. Problematizing their tenuous relationship, this book …

This article examines the determinants of fertility, child mortality, and gender bias in child
survival in India using district-level data from the 1981 census. A common set of explanatory …

In his extraordinarily influential book Orientalism, Edward Said argued that Western
knowledge about the Orient in the Post-Enlightenment period has been" a systematic …