Baloch Midwives

ISBN-13: 9781032571195 / Twarda / 2024 / 360 str.

Fouzieyha Towghi

Opis

As the first major ethnography of Baloch midwives in Pakistan, this book draws on long-term ethnographic research in Balochistan province, showing how dhīnabogs/dheenabogs (Baloch midwives ranging in age from about 30 to 80) and their dhīnabogirī (midwifery) aid women and their kin through labor and postpartum recovery.

Spis treści

Introduction

1. Balochistan and the Panjgūr District: Background and Context

2. Using Biomedicine to Secure the Maternal Body from Traditional Midwifery

3. Searching for the Dāī: Finding Dhīnabog, Kawwās, and Balluks

4. Haunted by Ingrezī Dhawā

5. Balochī versus Ingrezī Dhawā in the Politics of Births, Babies, and Bad Injections

6. Un-Enunciated Experiments in the Guise of Humanitarian Care

Conclusion: Forms and Ethics of Baloch Midwifery

Index

O autorze

Fouzieyha Towghi is a medical anthropologist and an honorary academic in the School of Archaeology and Anthropology, Australian National University and the recipient of the 2015 Rudolph Virchow Professional Award from the Society for Medical Anthropology for her 2014 article, “Normalizing Off-Label Experiments and the Pharmaceuticalization of Homebirths in Pakistan”. Drawing from over ten years of ethnographic research, her scholarship has focused on the politics of reproduction, medicine, science, and biomedical technologies and their implications for women’s health and lives in South Asia.