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Daughters of Hariti

By Geoffrey Samuel

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Daughters of Hariti

By Geoffrey Samuel

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Hariti is the ancient Indian goddess of childbirth and women healers, known at one time throughout South and Southeast Asia from India to Nepal and Bali. Daughters of Hariti looks at her 'daughters' today, female midwives and healers in many different cultures across the region. It also traces the transformation of childbirth in these cultures under the impact of Western biomedical technology, national and international health policies and the wider factors of social and economic change. The authors ask what can be done to improve the high rates of maternal and infant deaths and illnesses still associated with childbirth in most societies in this area and whether the wholesale replacement of indigenous knowledge by Western biomedical technology is necessarily a good thing.
Product details
Edition:
1
Number of Pages:
324
Release Date:
2002-06-01
Publication Date:
2002-05-09
Publisher:
Routledge
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
0415277922
ISBN13:
9780415277921
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
652 g
Height:
161 cm
Width:
240 cm
Thickness:
22 cm
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