Reproductive Agency, Medicine and the State

Reproductive Agency, Medicine and the StateRecent years have seen many changes in human reproduction resulting from state and medical interventions in childbearing processes. Based on empirical work in a variety of societies and countries, this volume considers the relationship between reproductive processes (of fertility, pregnancy, childbirth and the postpartum period) on the one hand and attitudes, medical technologies and state health policies in diverse cultural contexts on the other.

Set during the Georgian era of the 1750s

Focusing on the novels and films of daughters and sons of Holocaust survivors

pottery and other finds

appealing to scholars of these regions

It collects important Chinese writings about painting

this new edition provides additional sections on (i) international laws and treaties with direct impact on the upstream sector

what they felt comfortable finding

and explanatory notes

and considers 'new media'

Although the roots of this alternative conception of subjectivity can be found in Kant's third Critique and its legacy in nineteenth-century Naturphilosophie

and France often attract wide international attention

excitation and destruction of molecules at postgraduate and research levels