Embodying CultureEmbodying Culture is an ethnographically grounded exploration of pregnancy in two different culturesJapan and Israelboth of which medicalize pregnancy. Tsipy Ivry focuses on "low risk" or "normal" pregnancies, using cultural comparison to explore the complex relations among ethnic ideas about procreation, local reproductive politics, medical models of pregnancy care, and local modes of maternal agency. The ethnography pieces together the voices of