Where There Is No Midwife : Birth and Loss in Rural India (Fertility, Reproduction and Sexuality: Social and Cultural Perspectives)

In the Sitapur district of Uttar Pradesh, an agricultural region with high rates of infant mortality, maternal health services are poor while family planning efforts are intensive. By following the daily lives of women in this setting, the author considers the women's own experiences of birth and infant death, their ways of making-do...