دانلود کتاب The Cultural Politics of Reproduction: Migration, Health and Family Making

Charting the experiences of internally or externally migrant communities, the volume examines social transformation through the dynamic relationship between movement, reproduction, and health. The chapters examine how healthcare experiences of migrants are not only embedded in their own unique health worldviews, but also influenced by the history, policy, and politics of the wider state systems. The research among migrant communities an understanding of how ideas of reproduction and “cultures of health” travel, how healing, birth and care practices become a result of movement, and how health-related perceptions and reproductive experiences can define migrant belonging and identity.

Maya Unnithan-Kumar is Professor of Social and Medical Anthropology at the University of Sussex. Her research interests are in the anthropology of the body, childbirth and infertility, reproductive technologies, mobility, health inequalities and human rights. Her recent research was funded by the Economic and Social Sciences Research Council focused on State and civil society understandings of reproductive rights and their application to health policy and programs in India.

Sunil K. Khanna is a Professor of International Health in the College of Public Health and Human Sciences at Oregon State University. His recent research project addresses the new reproductive technology for the purpose of prenatal sex determination and sex selection in urbanizing north India. He is the author of Fetal/Fatal Knowledge: New Reproductive Technologies and Family-Building Strategies in India.