Embodying Culture: Pregnancy in Japan and Israel (Studies in

Embodying Culture: Pregnancy in Japan and Israel (Studies in Medical Anthropology)
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Embodying Culture is an ethnographically grounded exploration of pregnancy in two different culturesâ€”Japan and Israelâ€”both of which medicalize pregnancy. Tsipy Ivry focuses on "low-risk" or "normal" pregnancies, using cultural comparison to explore the complex relations among ethnic ideas about procreation, local reproductive politics, medical models of pregnancy care, and local modes of maternal agency.
The ethnography pieces together the voices of pregnant Japanese and Israeli women, their doctors, their partners, the literature they read, and depicts various clinical encounters such as ultrasound scans, explanatory classes for amniocentesis, birthing classes, and special pregnancy events.
The emergent pictures suggest that athough experiences of pregnancy in Japan and Israel differ, pregnancy in both cultures is an energy-consuming project of meaning-makingâ€” suggesting that the sense of biomedical technologies are not only in the technologies themselves but are assigned by those who practice and experience them.
Country USA
Brand Rutgers University Press
Manufacturer Rutgers University Press
Binding Paperback
UnitCount 1
EANs 9780813546360
ReleaseDate 2009-09-30

Embodying Culture: Pregnancy in Japan and Israel (Studies in Medical Anthropology)