{"product_id":"9780826518200","title":"Risk, Reproduction and Narratives of Experience","description":"\u003cbr\u003eAs Carole Browner explains in her foreword: \"These chapters compellingly reveal that although we anthropologists tend to speak of biomedicine in hegemonic terms, in fact its penetration is quite variable and often ambivalently met. . . . \u003ci\u003eRisk, Reproduction, and Narratives of Experience \u003c\/i\u003esheds new light on a troubling core aspect of medicalization processes, which simultaneously render pregnant women more docile subjects even as they are impelled to actively engage with biomedicalized prenatal care regimes. . . . We also see that a consummate means by which states seek to consolidate power in the reproductive realm is through expansion of the biomedical concept of risk. This critical observation emerges repeatedly in this collection.\"","brand":"Vanderbilt University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47012063707376,"sku":"9780826518200","price":29.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780826518200","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}