Where There Is No Midwife

Where There Is No MidwifeIn the Sitapurdistrict of Uttar Pradesh, an agricultural region with high rates of infant mortality, maternal health services are poor while family planning efforts are intensive. By following the daily lives of women in this setting, the author considers the womens own experiences of birth and infant death, their ways of making do, and the hierarchies they create and contend with. This book develops an approach to the care that focuses on emotion,

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established by the United Nations (UN) Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) and the World Health Organization (WHO)

exploring what Jewish tradition

depending on the political agendas that inform the heritage-making process

As an epidemiologist who is also a person living with MS

Over 30 maps help situate Mongolia in its diverse context

Despite the different classes of weeds based on habitat (terrestrial or aquatic)

This volume focuses on two alternately converging and diverging currents that increasingly shape Hindu traditions—namely

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The Hill of Dreams is a semi-autobiographical novel about a young man who begins having strange visions after visiting an ancient Roman fort near his rural Welsh home

Covers the continuum of health from antecedents and sociocultural determinants through specific evidence-based approaches for improving outcomes

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