Van Hollen, Cecilia Coale. <br/><br/>
Birth on the threshold :  childbirth and modernity in South India / 
Cecilia Van Hollen. 
 - Berkeley :  University of California Press,  c2003. 
 - xv, 295 p. :  map ;  24 cm. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (p. 265-279) and index. 
<br/><br/>The professionalization of obstetrics in colonial India: The problems of childbirth in colonial discourse -- Maternal and child health services in the postcolonial era -- Bangles of neem, bangles of gold: pregnant women as auspicious burdens -- Invoking vali: painful technologies of birth -- Moving targets: the routinization of IUD insertions in public maternity wards -- Baby friendly hospitals and bad mothers: maneuvering development during the postpartum period --   Conclusion: reproductive rights, choices, and resistance. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0520223586 (cloth : alk. paper) 0520223594 (pbk. : alk. paper) 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2003003890 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Childbirth--India, South.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>RG530.3.I42    /  I583 2003 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>618.2/00954