Cutting inoperable bodies: particularizing rural sociality to normalize hysterectomies in Balochistan, Pakistan.

摘要: Drawing on 15 months of ethnographic research in Balochistan, Pakistan (2005–2006), I explore Panjguri midwives’ (dinabogs, kawwās, or balloks) narrative links between routine injections prostaglandins around childbirth and the increasing number hysterectomies. These techno-medical interventions reflect postcolonial biomedicalization women's bodies reproductive health care, are reinforced by shifts Pakistan's public policy against maternal mortality a context where about 90 percent births occur outside hospitals. Transnational campaigns further biomedicalize lives. Interviews with doctors, midwives, women, analysis experiences, illustrate practical considerations that were used to normalize radical hysterectomies over less invasive procedures.