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Embodying Culture: Pregnancy in Japan and Israel
Contributor(s): Ivry, Tsipy (Author)

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 ISBN: 0813546354     ISBN-13: 9780813546353
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
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Binding Type: Hardcover - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: December 2009
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Annotation: "Embodying Culture" is an ethnographically grounded exploration of pregnancy in two different culturesaJapan and Israelaboth of which medicalize pregnancy. Tsipy Ivry focuses on alow-riska or anormala pregnancies, using cultural comparison to explore the complex relations among ethnic ideas about procreation, local reproductive politics, medical models of pregnancy care, and local modes of maternal agency.

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Additional Information
BISAC Categories:
- Health & Fitness | Pregnancy & Childbirth
- Social Science | Anthropology - General
- Family & Relationships
Dewey: 612.630
LCCN: 2009006025
Series: Studies in Medical Anthropology
Physical Information: 0.81" H x 6" W x 9" L (1.31 lbs) 312 pages
Themes:
- Topical - Family
Features: Bibliography, Index
Review Citations: Chronicle of Higher Education 11/20/2009 pg. 20
Books & Culture 05/01/2010 pg. 11
Reference and Research Bk News 05/01/2010 pg. 84
 
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Embodying Culture is an ethnographically grounded exploration of pregnancy in two different cultures--Japan and Israel--both of which medicalize pregnancy. Tsipy Ivry focuses on "low-risk" or "normal" pregnancies, using cultural comparison to explore the complex relations among ethnic ideas about procreation, local reproductive politics, medical models of pregnancy care, and local modes of maternal agency.

The ethnography pieces together the voices of pregnant Japanese and Israeli women, their doctors, their partners, the literature they read, and depicts various clinical encounters such as ultrasound scans, explanatory classes for amniocentesis, birthing classes, and special pregnancy events.

The emergent pictures suggest that athough experiences of pregnancy in Japan and Israel differ, pregnancy in both cultures is an energy-consuming project of meaning-making-- suggesting that the sense of biomedical technologies are not only in the technologies themselves but are assigned by those who practice and experience them.
 
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