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Forms and Ethics of Baloch Midwifery: Contesting the Violations of Biomedicalized Childbirth in Pakistan

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2021

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Towghi, Fouzieyha

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Oxford University Press

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Drawing from ethnographic research in Balochistan, Pakistan, in this chapter, I show how dhinabogs (Baloch midwives) and their dhinabogiril midwifery aid women and their kin to remedy and resist injuries of biomedicalized obstetrics. Dhlnabogs' mediations of the increasing iatrogenic effects of biomedical interventions reflect a form and ethics of their care, despite near two centuries of disparaging policy construction of South Asian indigenous midwives (Lal 1994; Towghi 2004, 2018).

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http://hdl.handle.net/1885/289311

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Childbirth in South Asia: Old Challenges and New Paradoxes

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2099-12-31

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