Abortion in Asia : local dilemmas, global politics Andrea Whittaker

By:

Whittaker, Andrea

Material type: Text

TextLanguage: English Publication details: New York : Berghahn Books, 2010.Description: xii, 253 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmISBN:

9789382993155

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DDC classification:

362.198 WHI

Contents:

Abortion in Asia : an overview / Andrea Whittaker -- Contraceptive use and unsafe abortion in rural Cambodia / Elizabeth Hoban, Tung Rathavy, Phirun Lam -- Between remembering and forgetting : maintaining moral motherhood after late-term abortion / Tine M. Gammeltoft -- Violence, poverty, and 'weakness' : interpersonal and institutional reasons why Burmese women on the Thai border utilise abortion / Suzanne Belton -- Quality of care and pregnancy terminations for adolescent women in urban slums, Bangladesh / Sabina Faiz Rashid -- Choosing abortion providers in rural Tamil Nadu : balancing costs and quality of care / Lakshmi Ramachandar, Pertti J. Pelto -- Abortion in Vietnam : history, culture and politics collide in the era of doi moi / Merrill Wolf [and others] -- Abortion and politics in Indonesia / Terence H. Hull, Ninuk Widyantoro -- Access to abortion services in Malaysia : a rights-based approach / Rashidah Abdullah, Yut-Lin Wong -- Improving access to safe termination of pregnancy in Thailand : an analysis of the policy development during 1999 to 2006 / Nongluk Boonthai [and others] -- Epilogue: Further challenges / Andrea Whittaker.

Summary: Based on extensive original field research, this provocative collection presents case studies from Thailand, Cambodia, Burma, Vietnam, Bangladesh, Indonesia and India. It includes an insight into the conditions and hard choices faced by women and the circumstances surrounding unplanned pregnancies.

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Abortion in Asia : an overview / Andrea Whittaker --
Contraceptive use and unsafe abortion in rural Cambodia / Elizabeth Hoban, Tung Rathavy, Phirun Lam --
Between remembering and forgetting : maintaining moral motherhood after late-term abortion / Tine M. Gammeltoft --
Violence, poverty, and 'weakness' : interpersonal and institutional reasons why Burmese women on the Thai border utilise abortion / Suzanne Belton --
Quality of care and pregnancy terminations for adolescent women in urban slums, Bangladesh / Sabina Faiz Rashid --
Choosing abortion providers in rural Tamil Nadu : balancing costs and quality of care / Lakshmi Ramachandar, Pertti J. Pelto --
Abortion in Vietnam : history, culture and politics collide in the era of doi moi / Merrill Wolf [and others] --
Abortion and politics in Indonesia / Terence H. Hull, Ninuk Widyantoro --
Access to abortion services in Malaysia : a rights-based approach / Rashidah Abdullah, Yut-Lin Wong --
Improving access to safe termination of pregnancy in Thailand : an analysis of the policy development during 1999 to 2006 / Nongluk Boonthai [and others] --
Epilogue: Further challenges / Andrea Whittaker.

Based on extensive original field research, this provocative collection presents case studies from Thailand, Cambodia, Burma, Vietnam, Bangladesh, Indonesia and India. It includes an insight into the conditions and hard choices faced by women and the circumstances surrounding unplanned pregnancies.

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