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Bodies of Knowledge: The Medicalization of Reproduction in Greece Eugenia Georges
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Bodies of Knowledge: The Medicalization of Reproduction in Greece
Eugenia Georges
Focusing on Rhodes island, this book paints a portrait of how a longstanding system of ""local"" gynecological and obstetrical knowledge under the control of women was displaced in the postwar period, and how the technologically-intensive biomedical model that took its place in turn assumed its own distinctive signature.
376 pages, 18 b&w photos, references, index
| Media | Books Paperback Book (Book with soft cover and glued back) |
| Released | December 29, 2008 |
| ISBN13 | 9780826515995 |
| Publishers | Vanderbilt University Press |
| Pages | 376 |
| Dimensions | 175 × 246 × 25 mm · 589 g |