Infertility Around the Globe

Infertility Around the Globe

Author: Marcia C. Inhorn

Publisher: Univ of California Press

Published: 2002-05-30

Total Pages: 357

ISBN-13: 0520231376

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These essays examine the global impact of infertility as a major reproductive health issue, one that has profoundly affected the lives of countless women and men. The contributors address a range of topics including how the deeply gendered nature of infertility sets the blame on women's shoulders.


Bodies of Technology

Bodies of Technology

Author: Ann Rudinow Saetnan

Publisher: Ohio State University Press

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 482

ISBN-13: 9780814208465

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This work is based on a concern for women's health and autonomy and on the premise that technology and society mutually shape one another. A basic question is one of cultural appropriation. Do technologies take on different shapes, different practices, and have different impacts as they spread from one place to another? By juxtaposing a number of culturally and historically contextualized studies of similar technologies, the editors demonstrate that although technologies globalize by spreading among cultures, they are also localized by the cultures they encounter.


Science and Babies

Science and Babies

Author: Institute of Medicine

Publisher: National Academies Press

Published: 1990-02-01

Total Pages: 183

ISBN-13: 0309041368

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By all indicators, the reproductive health of Americans has been deteriorating since 1980. Our nation is troubled by rates of teen pregnancies and newborn deaths that are worse than almost all others in the Western world. Science and Babies is a straightforward presentation of the major reproductive issues we face that suggests answers for the public. The book discusses how the clash of opinions on sex and family planning prevents us from making a national commitment to reproductive health; why people in the United States have fewer contraceptive choices than those in many other countries; what we need to do to improve social and medical services for teens and people living in poverty; how couples should "shop" for a fertility service and make consumer-wise decisions; and what we can expect in the futureâ€"featuring interesting accounts of potential scientific advances.


Reproductive Disruptions

Reproductive Disruptions

Author: Marcia C. Inhorn

Publisher: Berghahn Books

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 262

ISBN-13: 9781845454067

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Based on research by leading medical anthropologists from around the world, this book examines such issues as local practices detrimental to safe pregnancy and birth; conflicting reproductive goals between women and men; and miscommunications between pregnant women and their genetic counselors.


Assisted Reproductive Technology Surveillance

Assisted Reproductive Technology Surveillance

Author: Dmitry M. Kissin

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2019-07-04

Total Pages: 255

ISBN-13: 1108498582

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Offers a comprehensive guide to assisted reproductive technology surveillance, describing its history, global variations, and best practices.


Children of Choice

Children of Choice

Author: John A. Robertson

Publisher: Princeton University Press

Published: 1996-03-24

Total Pages: 296

ISBN-13: 9780691036656

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In this wide-ranging account of the reproductive technologies currently available, John Robertson goes to the heart of issues that confront increasing numbers of people - single individuals or couples, donors or surrogates, gays or heterosexuals - who seek to redefine family, parenthood, the experience of pregnancy, and life itself.


The Elusive Embryo

The Elusive Embryo

Author: Gaylene Becker

Publisher: Univ of California Press

Published: 2000-12-20

Total Pages: 330

ISBN-13: 0520224310

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This work examines the industry of reproductive technology from the perspective of the consumer. An analysis is made of the array of medical options available to those with fertility problems, and the financial and emotional toll is assessed.


Women as Wombs

Women as Wombs

Author: Janice G. Raymond

Publisher: Spinifex Press

Published: 1995

Total Pages: 292

ISBN-13: 9781875559411

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Annotation. Renowned scholar and feminist activist, Janice Raymond, delivers a passionate expose and uncovers the alarming ethical, legal and political implications of high-tech biomedical reproductive technologies. She argues that these technologies are neither liberatory nor an issue of reproductive "choice". Rather, they violate the integrity of women's bodies, perpetuate prostitution and an international trafficking in women and children, and are a threat to women's basic human rights. Women As Wombs is a scathing feminist analysis which contributes groundbreaking insights to the raging debate over reproductive technology.