Cultural conceptions : on reproductive technologies and the remaking of life

Cultural conceptions : on reproductive technologies and the remaking of life /

What happens to prevailing beliefs about the uniqueness of individual life when life can be cloned? Or to traditional understandings of family relationships when a child can have up to five parents? These are some of the questions addressed by Valerie Hartouni in her consideration of the cultural ef...

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Main Author: Hartouni, Valerie
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, ©1997.
Subjects:
Human reproductive technology > Social aspects.
Human reproductive technology > Moral and ethical aspects.
Reproductive technology.
Abortion.
Culture.
Reproductive Techniques
Abortion, Legal
Culture
Fetus > legislation & jurisprudence.
Socioeconomic Factors
Surrogate Mothers
culture note.
culture (concept)
HEALTH & FITNESS > Sexuality.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > General.
Reproductive technology
Abortion
Human reproductive technology > Moral and ethical aspects
Human reproductive technology > Social aspects
United States
Online Access:Connect to this title online (unlimited users allowed)
Table of Contents:
  • Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 Impaired Sight or Partial Vision? Tracking Reproductive Bodies; 2 Containing Women: Reproductive Discourse(s) in the 1980s; 3 Fetal Exposures: Abortion Politics and the Optics of Allusion; 4 Reproducing Public Meanings: In the Matter of Baby M; 5 Breached Birth: Anna Johnson and the Reproduction of Raced Bodies; 6 ""On Breeding Good Stock"": Reflections on Herrnstein and Murray's Bell Curve; 7 Replicating the Singular Self: Some Thoughts on Cloning and Cultural Identity; Notes; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S.
  • Tu; v; w; z.

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