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The Unheard Scream: Reproductive Health and Women's Lives in India
Mohan Rao (Ed.)

Hb o 320pp o Rs. 400

ISBN 81 86706 70 4 

 

The International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD) at Cairo brought about a "paradigm shift" in the way population is conceptualised. This involves going beyond maternal health and family planning, to the broader framework of reproductive health and rights. How has India fared with the paradigm shift? Is this about population control by other means? Is it about the social roots of illness, disease and death among women? This revelatory collection of essays by journalists explores a range of issues - from the quinacrine sterilization scandal, to the rip-off that is the assisted reproduction industry, to the declining age of marriage among Muslim girls in Malabar. Winners of the Panos Reproductive Health Media Fellowship, these journalists reveal how issues in women's health are deeply imbricated in the lives of Indian women. 

 

Essays by Rajashree Dasgupta (The Telegraph), Rupa Chinai (Times of India), Sreelatha Menon (Indian Express), K.P.M.Basheer (The Hindu), Dhirendra K. Jha (The Pioneer), Sandhya Srinivasan (Issues in Medical Ethics), Geetanjali Gangoli (School of Policy Studies, University of Bristol), Rupa Chinai, Lyla Bavadam (Frontline), Annu Anand (Press Institute of India), T.K. Rajalaxmi (Frontline), Swati Bhatacharjee (Ananda Bazar Patrika), Vasant Bhosale (Pudahri Noe), Manisha Bhalla (Dainik Bhaskar) and Rajshri Dasgupta.

 

MOHAN RAO teaches at the Centre of Social Medicine and Community Health, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. He is the author of Malthusian Arithmetic: From Population Control to Reproductive Health (forthcoming) and has edited Disinvesting in Health: The World Bank's Prescriptions for Health (2000).

 

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