Subtitle: A Cross-Cultural Study of Indigenous Fertility Regulation
Author: Lucile F Newman
Subject: Anthropology/Womens Studies/Medicine
Paper ISBN 0-8135-2257-9
Pages: 203 pp.

"Provides a standard of excellence for informing those concerned with the problem of fertility regulation in developing countries. . . . The ethnographies of fertility regulation include Chinese in Malaysia, Afghans, Egyptian peasants, rural migrants in Colombia, Aguaruna J'varo of Peru, Costa Ricans, and Jamaicans, all in tropical countries."--American Anthropologist

"Reflects broader approaches now taken in population control studies to understand why indigenous women commonly reject modern scientific means of birth control."--Contemporary Sociology

"Will be valuable and intriguing for anthropologists, clinicians, public health personnel, and others concerned with the delivery of safe, culturally acceptable fertility-regulating methods and for those specializing in the cross-cultural study of human reproduction."--Medical Anthropology Quarterly