Tine Gammeltoft: 2 books
Women's Bodies, Women's Worries
Health and Family Planning in a Vietnamese Rural Commune
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
The first fully-fledged ethnography on health-related issues to come out of contemporary Vietnam, Women's Bodies, Women's Worries is a study of women's lives in a rural commune in Vietnam's Red River delta. Starting as an examination of the impact of Vietnam's ambitious family planning policy on the...
Haunting Images
A Cultural Account of Selective Reproduction in Vietnam
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2014
Based on years of careful ethnographic fieldwork in Hanoi, Haunting Images offers a frank and compassionate account of the moral quandaries that accompany innovations in biomedical technology. At the center of the book are case studies of thirty pregnant women whose fetuses were labeled "abnormal"...