Navigating Miscarriage

Susie Kilshaw is a Wellcome Trust Principal Research Fellow in the Department of Anthropology, University College London. Her publications include Pregnancy and Miscarriage in Qatar: Women, Reproduction and the State (2020, I.B. Tauris) and Impotent Warriors: Gulf War Syndrome, Vulnerability and Masculinity (2009, Berghahn).

Introduction: Ambiguities and Navigations

Susie Kilshaw



Chapter 1. Does Twenty-First-Century Technology Change the Experience of Early Pregnancy and Miscarriage?

Pedro Melo and Ingrid Granne



Chapter 2. The Meanings of Miscarriage in Twentieth-Century Britain

Rosemary Elliot



Chapter 3. Alleviating the Ambiguities Around Miscarriage: Discursive Tactics in Cameroon and Romania

Erica van der Sijpt



Chapter 4. Some Babies Cannot be Stopped from Falling: Miscarriage in Pakistani Punjab

Kaveri Qureshi



Chapter 5. God’s Design; Thwarted Plans: Women’s Experience of Miscarriage in Qatar and England

Susie Kilshaw



Chapter 6. ‘It Felt like the Longest Time of my Life’: Using Foetal Dopplers at Home to Manage Anxiety about Miscarriage

Aimee Middlemiss



Chapter 7. Miscarriages and its Resulting Losses during Commercial Surrogacy in India

Sayani Mitra



Chapter 8. Unwitnessed Ceremonies: Funeral Services for Pre-24-Week Pregnancy Losses in England

Karolina Kuberska



Conclusions

Susie Kilshaw



Index