State Intimacies

Sterilization, Care and Reproductive Chronicity in Rural North India

Eva Fiks (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

242 Seiten

2024
Berghahn Books (Verlag)
978-1-80539-464-8 (ISBN)

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The public healthcare system in rural India is chronically under-resourced. It embodies and often perpetuates the wider politics of the Indian state towards its rural communities with provisions of care that are deeply entangled with violence and disgust. For rural women, such care deepens reproductive chronicity while providing temporary relief. Grounded in women’s everyday realities and experiences in sterilization camps and other healthcare settings in rural Rajasthan, State Intimacies examines the mundane workings, ambiguities and fragilities of care in post-colonial rural North India.

Eva Fiks is a Lecturer in Medical Anthropology at Keele University, United Kingdom. Her work on reproduction, biomedicine, care and the state in North India has been published in Ethnos, Medical Anthropology, Anthropology & Medicine, Anthropology Today and Medical Anthropology Quarterly.

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgements

Notes on Transliteration

List of Abbreviations

List of Characters

Map

Introduction

Chapter 1. The Camp

Chapter 2. The Laparoscope

Chapter 3. The Motivators

Chapter 4. Jugad

Chapter 5. Reproductive Chronicity

Chapter 6. Hierarchy Work

Conclusion

Glossary

References

Index

Erscheinungsdatum	06.03.2024
Reihe/Serie	Lifeworlds: Knowledges, Politics, Histories
Verlagsort	Oxford
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt	Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Gynäkologie / Geburtshilfe
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
ISBN-10	1-80539-464-9 / 1805394649
ISBN-13	978-1-80539-464-8 / 9781805394648
Zustand	Neuware