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Ethnography of fertility and birth
edited by Carol P. MacCormack
Publisher: London ; Academic Press, 1982.
ISBN: 0124635504   DDC: 304.63   LCC: GN482.1  

Notes:

Includes bibliographies and index. HEA, MEM

Biological, cultural, and social adaptation in human fertility and
birth / C.P. MacCormack -- Sexual power and fertility in Sri Lanka /
D.B. McGilvray -- Enga birth, maturation, and survival B. Gray --
Health, fertility, and birth in Moyamba District, Sierra Leone / C.P.
MacCormack -- Interpretations of infertility / V. Ebin -- Folk
medicine and fertility / U. Maclean -- The social context of birth /
S. Kitzinger -- Childbirth and change / S. Cosminsky -- Pregnancy and
birth rites of passage for two groups of women in Britain / H. Homans
-- Childbirth in a scientific and industrial society /A.D. Jones and
C. Dougherty. MEM

Classification:

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Dewey Class: 304.63 -- Factors affecting social behavior
LCC Number: GN482.1

Book Details:

Language: eng
Physical Description: x, 293 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

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