Maternity and Reproductive Health in Asian Societies

Pranee Liamputtong Rice, Lenore Manderson

Introduction; I: Birth and Its Inflections; 1: Japanese Women's Views on Having Children: The Concepts of Sazu-Karu and Tsuku-Ru; 2: Of Blood and Foetuses: Female Fertility and Women's Reproductive Health in a North Balinese Village; 3: Health Beliefs and the Use of Antenatal Care Among Pregnant Women in Southern Thailand; 4: Use of Health Services by Filipino Women During Childbearing Episodes; II: From Her Womb ....; 5: Journey to the Land of Light: Birth Among Hmong Women; 6: A Baby is Born in Site 2 Camp: Pregnancy, Birth and Confinement Among Cambodian Refugee Women; 7: Healers and Modern Health Services: Antenatal, Birthing and Postpartum Care in Rural East Lombok, Indonesia; 8: Women as Good Citizens: Maternal and Child Health in a Sasak Village; 9: Tso Yueh-Tzu (Sitting the Month) in Contemporary Taiwan; III: The Workings of the Body: Issues of Sexual Health; 10: White Blood and Falling Wombs: Ethnogynaecology in Northeast Thailand; 11: “No Problem”: Reproductive Tract Infections in Indonesia; 12: Blood Beliefs in a Transitional Culture of Northeastern Thailand; 13: Only When I Have Borne all my Children!: The Menopause in Hmong Women; 14: “Vectors” and “Protectors”: Women and HIV/AIDS in the Lao People's Democratic Republic