Abortion in Asia

List of Tables and Figures List of Appendices Acknowledgements List of Contributors Chapter 1: Abortion in Asia: an overview Andrea Whittaker Chapter 2: Contraceptive use and unsafe abortion in rural Cambodia Elizabeth Hoban, Tung Rathavy and Phirun Lam Chapter 3: Between remembering and forgetting: Post-diagnostic abortions in Hanoi, Vietnam Tine M. Gammeltoft Chapter 4: Violence, Poverty and 'Weakness'- Interpersonal and institutional reasons why Burmese women on the Thai border utilise abortion Suzanne Belton Chapter 5: Quality of care and pregnancy terminations for adolescent women in urban slums, Bangladesh Sabina Faiz Rashid Chapter 6: Choosing abortion providers in rural Tamil Nadu: Balancing costs and quality of care Lakshmi Ramachandar and Pertti J Pelto Chapter 7: Abortion in Vietnam: History, culture and politics collide in the era of doi moi Merrill Wolf, Phan Bich Thuy, Alyson Hyman and Amanda Huber Chapter 8: Abortion and politics in Indonesia Terence H Hull and Ninuk Widyantoro Chapter 9: Barriers to access to abortion services in Malaysia: Misinformation and stigma Rashidah Abdullah and Yut-Lin Wong Chapter 10: Improving access to safe termination of pregnancy in Thailand: An analysis of the policy development during 1999 to 2006 Nongluk Boonthai, Sripen Tantivess, Viroj Tangcharoensathien and Kamheang Chaturachinda Chapter 11: Epilogue: Further challenges Andrea Whittaker Glossary Index

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