Fouzieyha Towghi
Biographic Data
| ID | 125481 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Fouzieyha Towghi |
| GIVEN NAMES | Fouzieyha |
| FAMILY NAME | Towghi |
| SIGNATURE | TOWGHI F |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Zurich |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9338-7149 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 53 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
The HPV vaccine and neoliberal self-management for high-quality bodies to produce high-quality China
Diverse Perspective on Health and Medicine
The global proliferation of radical gynaecological surgeries: A history of the present
This paper asks questions about the resilience of radical gynaecological surgeries, such as hysterectomy and ovariectomy, from the moment of their widespread use in Western European and American practices of the late nineteenth century, to their renewed increase in the Indian subcontinent and Africa into our own time
Biomedical Entanglements: Conceptions of Personhood in a Papua New Guinea Society
Western biomedicine was introduced to the Giri people of northeast Papua New Guinea (PNG) some seventy years ago. Whereas the PNG social contexts and sociality have long served as the site of theor
Haunting Expectations of Hospital Births Challenged by Traditional Midwives
In Balochistan, Pakistan, hospitals are not the desired location for childbirth, but an affective economy of obstetric care, deceit, and clinical tactics of control has emerged, redirecting women away from midwives toward biomedical obstetrics. This economy manifests in forms such as coercing expectant mothers to deliver in the clinic rather than the home by generating fear in them and their kin through a narrative of imminent maternal and child …
Normalizing Off-Label Experiments and the Pharmaceuticalization of Homebirths in Pakistan
The off-label use of the drug misoprostol has effectively turned homebirths in 'resource-poor' nations into unmarked and un-enunciated zones of experimentation. Misoprostol has become the public health solution in response to medico-humanitarian discourses that construct homebirths as responsible for high maternal mortality. In the absence of proper safety tests, advocating its routine administration against postpartum haemorrhage in homes around…
Bodies, Markets, and the Experimental in South Asia
The laboratory has extended its walls to the whole planet. Instruments are everywhere. Houses, factories, hospitals have become so many subsidiaries of the labs. Think, for instance of global posit
The Biopolitics of Reproductive Technologies beyond the Clinic: Localizing HPV Vaccines in India
The human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine research and marketing in India exemplifies the privatization of public sectors and global assemblages of novel actors and public-private partnerships in service delivery and pharmaceutical marketing. Drawing on ethnographic research, in this article I examine how the molecularized conception of cervical cancer and the simultaneous global rise of the HPV vaccine is redefining the meaning of prevention, the r…
Cutting Inoperable Bodies: Particularizing Rural Sociality to Normalize Hysterectomies in Balochistan, Pakistan
Drawing on 15 months of ethnographic research in Balochistan, Pakistan (2005 -2006), I explore Panjguri midwives' (dïnabogs, kawwās, or balloks) narrative links between routine injections of prostaglandins around childbirth and the increasing number of hysterectomies. These techno-medical interventions reflect the postcolonial biomedicalization of women's bodies and reproductive health care, and are reinforced by shifts in Pakistan's public healt…
Bodies, Markets, and the Experimental in South Asia
The laboratory has extended its walls to the whole planet. Instruments are everywhere. Houses, factories, hospitals have become so many subsidiaries of the labs. Think, for instance of global posit
Cutting Inoperable Bodies: Particularizing Rural Sociality to Normalize Hysterectomies in Balochistan, Pakistan
Drawing on 15 months of ethnographic research in Balochistan, Pakistan (2005 -2006), I explore Panjguri midwives' (dïnabogs, kawwās, or balloks) narrative links between routine injections of prostaglandins around childbirth and the increasing number of hysterectomies. These techno-medical interventions reflect the postcolonial biomedicalization of women's bodies and reproductive health care, and are reinforced by shifts in Pakistan's public healt…
Normalizing Off-Label Experiments and the Pharmaceuticalization of Homebirths in Pakistan
The off-label use of the drug misoprostol has effectively turned homebirths in 'resource-poor' nations into unmarked and un-enunciated zones of experimentation. Misoprostol has become the public health solution in response to medico-humanitarian discourses that construct homebirths as responsible for high maternal mortality. In the absence of proper safety tests, advocating its routine administration against postpartum haemorrhage in homes around…
Haunting Expectations of Hospital Births Challenged by Traditional Midwives
In Balochistan, Pakistan, hospitals are not the desired location for childbirth, but an affective economy of obstetric care, deceit, and clinical tactics of control has emerged, redirecting women away from midwives toward biomedical obstetrics. This economy manifests in forms such as coercing expectant mothers to deliver in the clinic rather than the home by generating fear in them and their kin through a narrative of imminent maternal and child …
The Biopolitics of Reproductive Technologies beyond the Clinic: Localizing HPV Vaccines in India
The human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine research and marketing in India exemplifies the privatization of public sectors and global assemblages of novel actors and public-private partnerships in service delivery and pharmaceutical marketing. Drawing on ethnographic research, in this article I examine how the molecularized conception of cervical cancer and the simultaneous global rise of the HPV vaccine is redefining the meaning of prevention, the r…
Cutting Inoperable Bodies: Particularizing Rural Sociality to Normalize Hysterectomies in Balochistan, Pakistan
Drawing on 15 months of ethnographic research in Balochistan, Pakistan (2005 -2006), I explore Panjguri midwives' (dïnabogs, kawwās, or balloks) narrative links between routine injections of prostaglandins around childbirth and the increasing number of hysterectomies. These techno-medical interventions reflect the postcolonial biomedicalization of women's bodies and reproductive health care, and are reinforced by shifts in Pakistan's public healt…
The Biopolitics of Reproductive Technologies beyond the Clinic: Localizing HPV Vaccines in India
The human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine research and marketing in India exemplifies the privatization of public sectors and global assemblages of novel actors and public-private partnerships in service delivery and pharmaceutical marketing. Drawing on ethnographic research, in this article I examine how the molecularized conception of cervical cancer and the simultaneous global rise of the HPV vaccine is redefining the meaning of prevention, the r…
Normalizing Off-Label Experiments and the Pharmaceuticalization of Homebirths in Pakistan
The off-label use of the drug misoprostol has effectively turned homebirths in 'resource-poor' nations into unmarked and un-enunciated zones of experimentation. Misoprostol has become the public health solution in response to medico-humanitarian discourses that construct homebirths as responsible for high maternal mortality. In the absence of proper safety tests, advocating its routine administration against postpartum haemorrhage in homes around…
Bodies, Markets, and the Experimental in South Asia
The laboratory has extended its walls to the whole planet. Instruments are everywhere. Houses, factories, hospitals have become so many subsidiaries of the labs. Think, for instance of global posit
Biomedical Entanglements: Conceptions of Personhood in a Papua New Guinea Society
Western biomedicine was introduced to the Giri people of northeast Papua New Guinea (PNG) some seventy years ago. Whereas the PNG social contexts and sociality have long served as the site of theor
Haunting Expectations of Hospital Births Challenged by Traditional Midwives
In Balochistan, Pakistan, hospitals are not the desired location for childbirth, but an affective economy of obstetric care, deceit, and clinical tactics of control has emerged, redirecting women away from midwives toward biomedical obstetrics. This economy manifests in forms such as coercing expectant mothers to deliver in the clinic rather than the home by generating fear in them and their kin through a narrative of imminent maternal and child …
The global proliferation of radical gynaecological surgeries: A history of the present
This paper asks questions about the resilience of radical gynaecological surgeries, such as hysterectomy and ovariectomy, from the moment of their widespread use in Western European and American practices of the late nineteenth century, to their renewed increase in the Indian subcontinent and Africa into our own time
The HPV vaccine and neoliberal self-management for high-quality bodies to produce high-quality China
Diverse Perspective on Health and Medicine
Sociology (6 works) · Political science (5 works) · Medicine (4 works) · Pregnancy (4 works) · Epistemology (3 works) · Gender Studies (3 works) · Gender Studies (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Anthropology (2 works)