Health, Risk & Society, Volume 21, Issue 3-4 (2019)

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The impact of technology on pregnancy and childbirth: transnational perspectives on risk. Guest Editors: Sezin Topçu, Patrick Brown, Kirstie Coxon, Ilana Löwy

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The impact of technology on pregnancy and childbirth: creating and managing obstetrical risk in different cultural and socio-economic contexts
Sezin Topçu & Patrick Brown
Pages: 89-99
Published online: 23 Aug 2019
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Health regulations and social experiences of ‘high-risk’ pregnancies among young working-class women in Brazil
Alfonsina Faya Robles
Pages: 100-121
Published online: 08 Jul 2019
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Buying reassurance: uptake of non-invasive prenatal testing among pregnant women of advanced maternal age in China
Jifang Qiu
Pages: 122-140
Published online: 11 Jul 2019
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Caesarean or vaginarean epidemics ? Techno-birth, risk and obstetric practice in Turkey
Sezin Topçu
Pages: 141-163
Published online: 17 Jul 2019
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What disasters can reveal about techno-medical birth: Japanese women’s stories of childbirth during the 11 March, 2011 earthquake
Tsipy Ivry, Rika Takaki-Einy & Jun Murotsuki
Pages: 164-184
Published online: 23 Aug 2019
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Conceiving of risk in childbirth: obstetric discourses, medical management and cultural expectations in Switzerland and Jordan
Irene Maffi & Solène Gouilhers
Pages: 185-206
Published online: 27 May 2019
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Birth models in and between Italy and Senegal: a cross-cultural inquiry on the risks related to childbirth and birth technologies
Chiara Quagliariello
Pages: 207-225
Published online: 11 Jul 2019
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