[lbo-talk] economics of polygyny

Chris Doss lookoverhere1 at yahoo.com
Fri Mar 17 04:20:08 PST 2006


Given that it's such a sexually segregated society, how do they medically handle the birthing process? I thought women were denied education, which would preclude female doctors? Is there some clause in shariah that says a male doctor can facilitate a birth?

--- Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote:


> Chris Doss wrote:
>
> >What's the child mortality rate in Saudi Arabia?
> >Anybody know?
>
> 22 per thousand. Here it is, along with several
> other interesting
> countries (from the World Bank's World Development
> Indicators
> database):
> > Saudi Arabia 22
>

Nu, zayats, pogodi!

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