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Seminar on Cultural Perspectives on Reproductive Health

Rustenburg, South Africa, 16-19 June 1997
Co-sponsored by the IUSSP Committee on Reproductive Health and the Witwatersrand university

Scientific Programme

Opening

William Pick, Director, Head of the Community Health Department, university of Witwatersrand

G.N. Padayachee, Chief Executive Officer, Greater Johannesburg Metropolitan Council

Carla Makhlouf-Obermeyer and Axel Mundigo, IUSSP Reproductive Health Committee Co-Chairs

Session 1: Culture and the Formulation of Reproductive Illness: biomedical models and local realities

"Rariew" and Western Medicine: reproductive health in Kenya
Nancy Luke, Ina Warriner & Susan Watkins

Prophylactic Antibiotic use as a Barometer of Vulnerability and Misguided Appropriation of Medical Resources: the case of STDs in Southeast Asia
Mark Nichter

Health, Gender and Sexuality: how does culture shape STDs ?
Silvina Ramos and Mónica Gogna

Gender, Reproductive Health and Weakness: experiences of slum dwelling women in Bombay
Radhika Ramasubban and Bhanwar Singh

Poverty and Pathology: comparing ethnomedical models and biomedical models of reproductive morbidity in rural Rajasthani women
Nandini Maria Oomman

Perceptions, Attitudes and Health Care Seeking for Reproductive Tract Infections in Rural India
R.S. Goyal

Interpretating Reproductive Behaviour: the culturalist bias
Didier Fassin

La Paupérisation de la Fonction Maternelle
Annette Langevin

Session 2: Giving Birth, Planning Families

The Quest for Healthy Childbearing in a Nigerian Community
Jacob Adetunji

Clinic/Women's Views of Optimal Health Care at Birth in Nigeria
Chinyelu B. Okafor

The Socio-Cultural Context of Food and Health Behaviour of Women in the Reproductive Period in Rural South India
Inge Hutter

Coping with Childlessness: the Kanyaleng Kafos in the Gambia
Heidi Skramstad

Abortion in Egypt
Dale Huntington

The Quest for Conception in Egypt: gender, class and religion in infertility therapy decisions
Marcia Claire Inhorn

Session 3: New Problems, Technologies and Therapies

Eliminating Stigmatization: applications of the new genetics in Japan
Margaret Lock

Critical Perspectives on the Making of Women's Health Policy: the case of Silicone breast implants in the united States
Nora Jacobson

Hormones for All: the social construction of female maturity and menopause
Maria Coleta De Oliveira

Session 4: The Political Context of Reproductive Strategies

From Feudal Remnant to Peasant Reality: "valuing males, devaluing females" in Chinese population discourse
Susan Greenhalgh

From "Tradition" to "Modern" Reproductive Politics in Egypt
Kamran Asdar Ali

Muslim Women Mullahs as Volunteer Reproductive Health Counsellors
Homa Hoodfar

The Reproductive Consequences of Shifting Ethnic Identity in South Africa
Deborah James & Carol E. Kaufman

Two Cultural Approaches to the Consequences of Domestic Violence for reproductive Health: traditional and academic medicine in an Indian area of Mexico
Soledad Gonzales Montes

Re-Theorising Reproductive Health and Rights in the Light of Feminist Cross-cultural Research
Rosalind P. Petchesky