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List of contents
Part 1. Reproductive Health. 1. Introduction to Reproductive Health in the Middle East. Joseph W. Brown. 2. Profiling Maternal Health in Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, Palestine, and Syria. Oona Campbell and Gillian Lwando-Hundt with Members of the Maximizing Arab Maternal Health (MAMAH) Network. 3. Contraceptive Use Dynamics and Reproductive Morbidity in Lebanon: Evidence from Family Planning Clinic Data. Nada Moudallal and Kannan Navaneetham. 4. Evaluation of Factors Influencing the Cost-Effectiveness of Mobile Family Planning Units in Tunisia. Dayl S. Donaldson. 5. Fertility and Family Planning in a West Bank Village. Aida J. Hudson. 6. Infertility and the Quest for Conception in Eqypt. Marcia C. Inhorn. Part 2. Infectious Disease. 7. Introduction to Infectious Disease in the Middle East. Robin Barlow. 8. Schistosomiasis in Egypt: A Current Assessment. F. DeWolfe Miller. 9. A New Procedure to Assess Individual Risk of Exposure to Schistosomiasis Cercariae. Maha Talaat, Knut M. Wittkowski, Mohamed H. Husein and Rashida Barakat. 10. Knowledge of Risks of HIV Infection and Methods of Prevention among Women in Three Beirut Hospitals. Knut M. Wittkowski, Karl G. Damiani, Hassan A. Dbouk, Ghassan I. Gholmieh, Ali H. Hashem, Rabieh H. Hijazi, Sarah I. Husseini and Jean-Elie S. Tabbal. 11. Politics and the Spread of HIV/AIDS in the Middle East. Inon I. Schenker. 12. Rift Valley Fever in the Middle East: An Example of Medical Poltical Cooperation in the Control of Zoonotic and Emerging Infectious Diseases. Sanford F. Kuvin. 13. Hepatitis C Virus Epidemiology in Egypt. F. DeWolfe Miller.
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Robin Barlow, Joseph W. Brown
Summary
First published in 1998, this book analyzes reproductive health and infectious disease within the social and economic context of the Middle East, where significant cultural and political obstacles to progress remain.
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’The editors should be congratulated for the prompt appearance of this book, which was published less than a year after the conference was held...This book is notable for the informative studies and for the effort to address the politics of reproduction and infectious disease.’ Middle East Women's Studies Review
