Jeffery, Roger; Jeffery, Patricia; Lyon, Andrew - In: Social Science & Medicine 19 (1984) 11, pp. 1207-1212
Clinical services offering amniocentesis to inform women of the sex of their foetuses have appeared in North India in the past 10 years. They fit into cultural patterns in which girls are devalued, and some authors have seen direct links between female infanticide (assumed to have been...