Baby-friendly hospitals and bad mothers: Manoeuvring development in the postpartum period in Tamil Nadu, South India1

The Daughters of Hāritī: Childbirth and Female Healers in South and Southeast Asia

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 163-181

  Van Hollen, Cecilia ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EID: 84855205018     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4324/9780203220214-16     Document Type: Chapter

References (20)

1. Baumslag, N. and D.L. Michels. 1995. Milk, Money, and Madness: The Culture and Politics of Breastfeeding. Westport, CT: Bergin and Garvey.
2. Bumiller, E. 1990. May You Be the Mother of a Hundred Sons: A Journey among the Women of India. New Delhi: Penguin.
3. Djurfeldt, G., S. Lindberg and A. Rajagopal. 1997. Coming back to Thaiyur: Health and medicine in a twenty-five years perspective. In The village in Asia Revisited, edited by J. Breman, P. Klaas and P. Saith. Delhi: Oxford University Press.
4. Escobar, A. 1995. Encountering Development: The Making and Unmaking of the Third World. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.
5. Ferguson, J. 1994. The Anti-politics Machine: ‘Development’, Depoliticization, and Bureaucratic Power in Lesotho. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.
6. Government of Tamil Nadu. 1993. State Plan of Action for the Child in Tamil Nadu.
7. Government of Tamil Nadu 1994a. Child Survival and Safe Motherhood in Tamil Nadu. January 1994. Directorate of Public Health and Preventative Medicine, Madras.
8. Government of Tamil Nadu 1994b. Statistical Handbook of Tamil Nadu. November 1993. Directorate of Public Health and Preventative Medicine, Madras.
9. Gupta, A. 1998. Postcolonial Developments: Agriculture in the Making of Modern India. Durham, NC: Duke University Press.
10. Jejeebhoy, S.J. and S.R. Rao. 1995. Unsafe motherhood: A review of reproductive health. In Women’s Health in India: Risk and Vulnerability, edited by M.D. Gupta, L.C. Chen and T.N. Krishnan. Bombay: Oxford University Press.
11. Laderman, C. 1983. Wives and Midwives: Childbirth and Nutrition in Rural Malaysia. Berkeley: University of California Press.
12. Marglin, F.A. 1990. Smallpox in two systems of knowledge. In Dominating Knowledge: Development, Culture and Resistance, edited by F.A. Marglin and S.A. Marglin. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
13. Nandy, A. and S. Visvanathan. 1990. Modern medicine and its non-modern critics: A study in discourse. In Dominating Knowledge: Development, Culture and Resistance, edited by F.A. Marglin and S.A. Marglin. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
14. Pigg, S.L. 1992. Inventing social categories through place: social representations and development in Nepal. Comparative Studies in Society and History 34 (3): 491–513.
15. Raphael, D. (ed.) 1979. Breastfeeding and Food Policy in a Hungry World. San Francisco, CA: Academic Press.
16. Rostow, W.W. 1991 [1960]. The Stages of Economic Growth: A Non-communist Manifesto, Third Edition. New York: Cambridge University Press.
17. Stevenson, Mrs S. 1971 [1920]. The Rites of the Twice Born. New Delhi: Oriental Books Reprint Corporation.
18. Van Hollen, C. 1998. Criminal mothers and superstitious fathers: A shift from the mother to the child in Tamil Nadu’s maternal and child health programme. Paper presented at the University of Wisconsin–Madison Annual Conference on South Asia, October 1998.
19. Verderese, M.D. and L.M. Turnbull (eds). 1975. The Traditional Birth Attendant in Maternal and Child Health and Family Planning: A Guide to Her Training and Utilization. Geneva: World Health Organisation.
20. Zeitlyn, S. and R. Rowshan. 1997. Privileged knowledge and mothers’ ‘perceptions’: The case of breastfeeding and insufficient milk in Bangladesh. Medical Anthropology Quarterly 11 (1): 56–68.