Contributor
Basu, Alaka Malwade.
Imprint:Westport, Conn. : Praeger, 2003.
Descriptionx, 275 p. ; 24 cm.
Note:Introduction: induced abortion in a changing world / John C. Caldwell, Pat Caldwell -- Abortion: a worldwide overview / Susheela Singh, Stanley K. Henshaw, Kathleen Berentsen -- The challenge of induced abortion research: transdisciplinary perspectives / Axel I. Mundigo -- Demographic research and abortion policy: limits to the use of statistics / Andrzej Kulczycki -- Kutoa Mimba: debates about schoolgirl abortion in Machame, Tanzania / Amy Stambach -- Cleaning the belly: managing menstrual health in Guinea, West Africa / Eleise Levin -- Changing assessments of abortion in a northern Nigerian town / Elisha P. Renne -- The role of local herbs in the recent fertility decline in Ghana: contraceptives or abortifacients? / John K. Anarfi -- Menstrual regulation in Bangladesh / Sajeda Amin -- The impact of reproductive health policy changes on fertility, abortion, and contraceptive use in Romania / Florina Serbanescu, Leo Morris, Paul Stupp -- Determinants of abortion and contraceptive behavior in Russia / Inge Hutter -- Abortion legislation in Mexico in the face of a changing sociodemographic and political context / Susana Lerner, Guadalupe Salas -- The role of pharmacists and market herb vendors as abortifacient providers in Mexico City / Susan Pick ... [and others] -- The social pressure to abort / Chantal Blayo, Yves Blayo -- Concluding remarks: the role of ambiguity / Alaka Malwade Basu.
Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references and index.
