Risk, Reproduction, and Narratives of Experience (eBook)

CONTENTS Introduction: The Development of Discourses Surrounding Reproductive RisksLauren Fordyce and Aminata MaraesaComplications in Measuring and Defining RiskConceiving Risk in K'iche' Maya ReproductionMatthew R. DudgeonFailing to See the Danger: Conceptions of Pregnancy and Care Practices among Mexican Immigrant Women in New York CityAlyshia GalvezThe Vital Conjuncture of MethamphetamineInvolved Pregnancy: Objective Risks and Subjective RealitiesAlison B. HamiltonBiopolitical Narratives of Risk and ResponsibilityBirth and Blame: Guatemalan Midwives and Reproductive RiskSheila Cosminsky"They Don't Know Anything": How Medical Authority Constructs Perceptions of Reproductive Risk among LowIncome Mothers in MexicoVania SmithOkaLocal Contours of Reproductive Risk and Responsibility in Rural OaxacaRebecca HowesMischelNew Countryside, New Family: The Discourses of Reproductive Risk in Postsocialist Rural ChinaQingyan MaStruggles over the Embodiment of Reproductive RiskNegotiating Risk and the Politics of Responsibility: Mothers and Young Child Health among Datoga Pastoralists in Northern TanzaniaAlyson G. YoungShifting Maternal Responsibilities and the Trajectory of Blame in Northern GhanaAaron R. DenhamImaging Maternal Responsibility: Prenatal Diagnosis and Ultrasound among Haitians in South FloridaLauren FordyceA Competition over Reproductive Authority: Prenatal Risk Assessment in Southern BelizeAminata Maraesa