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Haunting Expectations of Hospital Births Challenged by Traditional Midwives

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dc.contributor.authorTowghi, Fouzieyha
dc.date.accessioned2019-12-10T04:16:53Z
dc.date.issued2018-10-12
dc.date.updated2019-07-28T08:18:43Z
dc.description.abstractIn Balochistan, Pakistan, hospitals are not the desired location for childbirth, but an affective economy of obstetric care, deceit, and clinical tactics of control has emerged, redirecting women away from midwives toward biomedical obstetrics. This economy manifests in forms such as coercing expectant mothers to deliver in the clinic rather than the home by generating fear in them and their kin through a narrative of imminent maternal and child harm. Drawing from ethnographic research, I show why Baloch midwives' ethical expertise and affective responses to iatrogenically induced emergencies haunt the postcolonial state and constrain biomedicine’s haunting expectations of hospital/clinical births.en_AU
dc.description.sponsorshipThis research was funded by the University of California Regents, American Association of University Women, and the Woodrow Wilson and Johnson and Johnson Women’s Health Fellowshipen_AU
dc.format.mimetypeapplication/pdfen_AU
dc.identifier.issn0145-9740en_AU
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1885/191425
dc.language.isoen_AUen_AU
dc.publisherGordon and Breachen_AU
dc.rights© 2018 Taylor & Francis Group, LLC.en_AU
dc.sourceMedical Anthropology: Cross-cultural Studies in Health and Illnessen_AU
dc.subjectBalochistanen_AU
dc.subjectaffecten_AU
dc.subjectcolonial hauntingen_AU
dc.subjecthospitalen_AU
dc.subjectmidwivesen_AU
dc.subjectuterotonic injectionsen_AU
dc.titleHaunting Expectations of Hospital Births Challenged by Traditional Midwivesen_AU
dc.typeJournal articleen_AU
local.bibliographicCitation.issue8en_AU
local.bibliographicCitation.lastpage687en_AU
local.bibliographicCitation.startpage674en_AU
local.contributor.affiliationTowghi, Fouzieyha, College of Arts and Social Sciences, ANUen_AU
local.contributor.authoruidTowghi, Fouzieyha, u1033125en_AU
local.description.embargo2037-12-31
local.description.notesImported from ARIESen_AU
local.identifier.absfor160508 - Health Policyen_AU
local.identifier.absfor160104 - Social and Cultural Anthropologyen_AU
local.identifier.absseo920507 - Women's Healthen_AU
local.identifier.absseo970116 - Expanding Knowledge through Studies of Human Societyen_AU
local.identifier.ariespublicationu3102795xPUB370en_AU
local.identifier.citationvolume37en_AU
local.identifier.doi10.1080/01459740.2018.1520709en_AU
local.identifier.scopusID2-s2.0-85054924053
local.publisher.urlhttps://www.tandfonline.comen_AU
local.type.statusPublished Versionen_AU

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