Delayed periods and falling babies: The ethnophysiology and politics of pregnancy loss in rural north India

Anthropology of Pregnancy Loss: Comparative Studies in Miscarriage, Stillbirth and Neo-natal Death

Volumn , Issue , 2020, Pages 17-37

  Jeffery, Patricia ^a   Jeffery, Roger ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 85091544912     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4324/9781003135722-3     Document Type: Chapter

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