Risk, Reproduction, and Narratives of Experience

Book Overview

As Carole Browner explains in her foreword: These chapters compellingly reveal that although we anthropologists tend to speak of biomedicine in hegemonic terms, in fact its penetration is quite variable and often ambivalently met. . . . Risk, Reproduction, and Narratives of Experience sheds new light on a troubling core aspect of medicalization processes, which simultaneously render pregnant women more docile subjects even as they are impelled to actively engage with biomedicalized prenatal care regimes. . . . We also see that a consummate means by which states seek to consolidate power in the reproductive realm is through expansion of the biomedical concept of risk. This critical observation emerges repeatedly in this collection.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0826518206
• ISBN13: 9780826518200
• Release Date: May 2012
• Publisher: Vanderbilt University Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.01 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.9" x 9.9"