Abstract
1. Language and Status: The Disappearing and Reappearing 'Midwife' 2. Genetic Traits as Pollution: The Case of 'White English' Carriers of Sickle Cell/Thalassaemia Traits 3. Midwives: Defiling Women! Section 2: Leakage and Labelling 4. Containing the Leaking Body: Female Incontinence and Formal Health Care 5. Leaky Bodies and Boundaries: Older Women and Early Miscarriage 6. I Just Felt Really Dirty: Women's Responses to a Diagnosis of Chlamydial Infection Section 3: Breastfeeding as Pollution 7. 'Resisting the Gaze': The Subversive Nature of Breastfeeding 8. The Pollution of Objective Scientific Practice by Anecdotal Stories of Personal, Vicarious or Cultural Experience: The Denial of Embodied Knowledge 9. Not in Public Please: Breastfeeding as Dirty Work 10. Milk for Africa and the Neighbourhood but Socially Isolated 11. Breastfeeding: A Time for Caution Section 4: Midwives and Dirt 12. Birth Dirt 13. Pollution and Safety - Controls of a Secular World 14. Drained and Dumped On: The Generation and Accumulation of Emotional Toxic Waste in Community Midwifery Section 5: History: Containing Birth Pollution 15. A Clean Front Passage: Dirt, Douches and Disinfectants at St Helen's Hospital, Wellington, New Zealand, 1907-1922 16. The Thanksgiving of Women after Childbirth: A Blessing in Disguise? Section 6: Dais 17. Rethinking 'Pollution'- Understanding 'Narak' 18. Dais' Work in Gujarat, India 19. The Dirt has to Come Away 20. Pollution and Women in Sickness, Health, Birth and Work
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