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The oocyte economy : the changing meaning of human eggs / Catherine Waldby.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Waldby, Cathy, author.
- Series:
- e-Duke books scholarly collection
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Ovum.
- Fertility, Human--Social aspects.
- Fertility, Human.
- Fertility, Human--Economic aspects.
- Human reproductive technology--Economic aspects.
- Human reproductive technology.
- Infertility--Treatment--Economic aspects.
- Infertility.
- Medical tourism.
- Infertility--Treatment.
- Genre:
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (viii, 239 pages).
- Place of Publication:
- Durham : Duke University Press, 2019.
- System Details:
- Mode of Access: World Wide Web.
- text file
- Summary:
- Catherine Waldby trace how the history of the valuing of human oocytes--the reproductive cells specific to women--intersects with the biological and social life of women.
- Contents:
- Temporal oocytes : fertility and deep time
- Twentieth-century oocytes : experiment and experience
- Precious oocytes : IVF and the deficit spiral
- Global oocytes : medical tourism and the transaction of fertility
- Cold-chain oocytes : vitrification and the formation of corporate egg banks
- Private oocytes : personal egg banking and generational time
- Innovation oocytes : therapeutic cloning and mitochondrial donation.
- Notes:
- Description based on print version record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Other Format:
- Print version: Waldby, Cathy. Oocyte economy.
- ISBN:
- 9781478005568
- 1478005564
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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