Cutting inoperable bodies: Particularizing rural sociality to normalize hysterectomies in Balochistan, Pakistan

Medical Anthropology: Cross Cultural Studies in Health and Illness

Volumn 31, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 229-248

  Towghi, Fouzieyha ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Balochistan; biomedicalization; hysterectomy; injections; midwives; rural bodies

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ETHICS; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYSTERECTOMY; MEDICAL ANTHROPOLOGY; MIDWIFE; PAKISTAN; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RURAL POPULATION; STANDARD; UTILIZATION REVIEW; VERBAL COMMUNICATION; WOMEN'S HEALTH;

ANTHROPOLOGY, MEDICAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYSTERECTOMY; MIDWIFERY; NARRATION; PAKISTAN; RURAL POPULATION; WOMEN'S HEALTH;

EID: 84860713569     PISSN: 01459740     EISSN: 15455882     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01459740.2011.623488     Document Type: Article

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