Embodying culture [[electronic resource] ] : pregnancy in Japan and Israel / / Tsipy Ivry

• Autore: Ivry Tsipy
• Pubblicazione: New Brunswick, N.J., : Rutgers University Press, c2010
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (313 p.)
• Disciplina: 612.6/30952
• Soggetto topico: Pregnancy - Japan; Pregnancy - Israel; Pregnant women - Medical care - Japan; Pregnant women - Medical care - Israel; Medical anthropology - Japan; Medical anthropology - Israel
• Soggetto geografico: Japan Social life and customs; Israel Social life and customs
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Introduction: pregnancy, cultural comparison, multisited ethnographies -- The doctoring of pregnancy -- A risky business: pregnancy in the eyes of Israeli ob-gyns -- The twofold structure of Japanese prenatal care -- Experiencing pregnancy -- The path of bonding -- The path of ambiguity -- Embodying culture: toward an anthropology of pregnancy -- Juxtapositions -- Pregnant with meaning.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Embodying culture
• ISBN: 1-280-49349-6; 9786613588722; 0-8135-4830-6
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910456593203321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Studies in medical anthropology.