Bodies of Knowledge: The Medicalization of Reproduction in Greece

Eugenia Georges

Bodies of Knowledge: The Medicalization of Reproduction in Greece
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Vanderbilt University Press
Country
United States
Published
29 December 2008
Pages
376
ISBN
9780826515995

Bodies of Knowledge: The Medicalization of Reproduction in Greece

Eugenia Georges

This is a rich ethnography of traditional midwifery and medicalized reproduction as globalization touches an island.Focusing on Rhodes, an island that blends continuity with the past and rapid social change in often unexpected ways, the author paints a detailed portrait of how a longstanding system of
local
gynecological and obstetrical knowledge under the control of women was rapidly displaced in the postwar period, and how the technologically-intensive biomedical model that took its place in turn assumed its own distinctive signature.

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