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Bodies of knowledge the medicalization of reproduction in Greece

Title: Bodies of knowledge [electronic resource] : the medicalization of reproduction in Greece / Eugenia Georges.
Author: Georges, Eugenia.
Publication: Nashville : Vanderbilt University Press, c2008.

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Description

1 online resource (xiii, 322 p.) : ill.

Uniform Title

Bodies of knowledge (Online)

Alternative Title

Bodies of knowledge (Online)

Subject

Human reproduction > Greece > Rhodes (Island) > History > 20th century
Childbirth > Greece > Rhodes (Island) > History > 20th century
Birth control > Greece > Rhodes (Island) > History > 20th century
Women > Health and hygiene > History > Greece > Rhodes (Island) > 20th century
Ethnology > Greece > Rhodes (Island) > History > 20th century
Medicalization > Greece > Rhodes (Island) > History > 20th century

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references (p. 293-314) and index.

Access (note)

Access restricted to authorized users.

Contents

Transnational Rhodes -- Menstruation, procreation, and abortion in prewar Rhodes -- Pregnancy, birth, and postpartum care in prewar Rhodes -- Medicalization and modernity : new reproductive technologies, new maternal bodies -- Living with contradictions : contraception and abortion and the contemporary Greek family -- Global and local bodies of knowledge.

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