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Daughters of Hariti: Childbirth and Female Healers in South and Southeast Asia (Theory and Practice in Medical Anthropology and Internationa) [Hardcover]

Santi Rozario (Editor), Geoffrey Samuel (Editor)

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Publication Date: 9 May 2002 | ISBN-10: 0415277922 | ISBN-13: 978-0415277921

Hariti is the ancient Indian goddess of childbirth and women healers, known at one time throughout South and Southeast Asia from India to Nepal and Bali. Daughters of Hariti looks at her 'daughters' today, female midwives and healers in many different cultures across the region. It also traces the transformation of childbirth in these cultures under the impact of Western biomedical technology, national and international health policies and the wider factors of social and economic change. The authors ask what can be done to improve the high rates of maternal and infant deaths and illnesses still associated with childbirth in most societies in this area and whether the wholesale replacement of indigenous knowledge by Western biomedical technology is necessarily a good thing.

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Hardcover: 320 pages
Publisher: Routledge (9 May 2002)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0415277922
ISBN-13: 978-0415277921
Product Dimensions: 15.6 x 1.9 x 23.4 cm
Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 5,651,099 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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' ... one of the major accomplishments of the book is the persuasive way Western values and secularist models are explained to be "equally dismissive of local traditions and folk practices such as those associated with childbirth".' – SOAS

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The Harit� of our title is the ancient Buddhist goddess of childbirth (Auboyer and de Mallmann 1950: 225; Strong 1992: 36-7). Read the first page

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