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Quest for conception : gender, infertility, and Egyptian medical traditions

Author: Marcia Claire Inhorn
Publisher: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, ©1994.
Edition/Format:   Book : English
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Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Marcia Claire Inhorn
ISBN: 0812232216 9780812232219 0812215281 9780812215281
OCLC Number: 30074129
Description: xxvii, 441 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Contents: Preface: Hind's Story --
Problem, Place, and Procreative Theory --
The Infertility Problem in Egypt --
Ancient Alexandria and Its Modern Poor --
Past and Present in Theories of Procreation --
Ethnogynecology --
Healers, Herbalists, and Holy Ones --
Kabsa and Threatened Fertility --
From Humidity to Sorcery --
Divinity, Profanity, and Pilgrimage --
Biogynecology --
Biomedical Bodies --
Untherapeutic Therapeutics --
The Injection of Spermatic Animals --
Babies of the Tubes --
Futures for the Infertile --
Fieldwork --
Informants.
Responsibility: Marcia C. Inhorn.

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