Lexington Books
Pages: 238
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Trim: 6⅜ x 9½
978-0-7391-2005-7 • Hardback • November 2007 • $104.00 • (£80.00)
978-0-7391-2006-4 • Paperback • November 2007 • $46.99 • (£36.00)
Pranee Liamputtong is professor of public health at Latrobe University.
Chapter 1 Introduction: Thai Women, Reproduction and Motherhood
Chapter 2 My Doctor Knows Best: Antenatal Care and Authoritative Knowledge
Chapter 3 Birth and Social Class: Vaginal or Caesarean Birth?
Chapter 4 Giving Birth in a Hospital
Chapter 5 Yu Duan Practices as Embodying Tradition, Modernity and Social Change
Chapter 6 Becoming a Mother
Chapter 7 Breast is Best?: Infant Feeding in a Changing Social Context
Chapter 8 Childrearing and Infant Care: Motherhood, Risk and Responsibility
Chapter 9 In trying to Conclude...Postscript
The Journey of Becoming a Mother Among Women in Northern Thailand contributes to understanding how the global goals of lowering mother and child mortality and morbidity can be met by going beyond statistics and revealing the complexity of women's experiences.
— Wilfreda Thurston, University of Calgary
A significant contribution to the field, this book should be required reading for health practitioners and policy makers in Thailand and elsewhere.
— Miriam Grant, University of Calgary