“Bold and gripping, God's Laboratory is ethnography at its best. The book's unforgettable
characters and their desperate travails to reproduce via global medicine are the very fabric …

“[S] heds light not only on the obstacles to making motherhood safer, but to improving the
health of poor populations in general.”—Social Anthropology Since 1987, when the global …

In the Sitapurdistrict of Uttar Pradesh, an agricultural region with high rates of infant mortality,
maternal health services are poor while family planning efforts are intensive. By following …

All cultures are concerned with the business of childbirth, so much so that it can never be
described as a purely physiological or even psychological event. This volume draws …

Intrigued by the question of racialized hierarchies among midwives, I began traveling to
different states in 2013 to meet with foreign and foreigntrained midwives and collect their life …

Background Despite several decades of investment into family planning and maternal health
systems strengthening, Indonesia's maternal mortality ratio remains among the highest in …

The societal changes in India and the available variety of reproductive health services call
for evidence to inform health systems how to satisfy young women's reproductive health …

Set in the context of the processes and practices of human reproduction and reproductive
health in Northern India, this book examines the institutional exercise of power by the state …

The first study of its kind in English, Frameworks of Choice provides a comprehensive
overview of predictive and genetic testing in China, Japan, India, and Sri Lanka. The volume …

Abstract Emergency Contraceptive Pills (ECPs) are increasingly available over the counter
as a form of hormonal birth control in India. As use of ECPs is increasing over time, this …