gender, technology, and biopolitics in the new millennium
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Inhorn, Marcia C. > (ed.)
- Contributor
- Lock, Margaret
- Publish Year
- 2009
- Shelfmark
- WER34 2009 - B
- Thesaurus
- zwangerschappen, geboorteregeling, bevallingen, adoptie, genetische moeders, voortplantingstechnologie, hormonen, globalisering, islam, allochtonen, bundel
- Description
- Reproductive disruptions, such as infertility, pregnancy loss, adoption, and childhood disability, are among the most distressing experiences in people´s lives.This book examines such issues as local practices detrimental to safe pregnancy and birth: conflicting reproductive goals between women and men: miscommunications between pregnant women and their genetic counselors: cultural anxieties over gamete donation and adoption: the contested meanings of abortion: cultural critiques of hormone replacement therapy: and the globalization of new pharmaceutical and assisted reproductive technologies.