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Assisting reproduction, testing genes : global encounters with new biotechnologies / edited by Daphna Birenbaum-Carmeli and Marcia C. Inhorn.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Fertility, reproduction, and sexuality ; v. 18.
- Fertility, reproduction, and sexuality ; v. 18
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Human reproductive technology.
- Biotechnology.
- Human genetics.
- Fertilization in vitro, Human.
- Human embryo--Transplantation.
- Human embryo.
- Surrogate motherhood.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (303 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Berghahn Books, 2009.
- Language Note:
- English
- System Details:
- Mode of access: World Wide Web.
- Summary:
- Following the routinization of assisted reproduction in the industrialized world, technologies such as in vitro fertilization, preimplantation genetic diagnosis, and DNA-based paternity testing have traveled globally and are now being offered to couples in numerous non-Western countries. This volume explores the application and impact of these advanced reproductive and genetic technologies in societies across the globe. By highlighting both the cross-cultural similarities and diverse meanings that technologies may assume as they enter multiple contexts, the book aims to foster understanding
- Contents:
- Title page-Assisting Reproduction, Testing Genes; Contents; Introduction; Part I-Families and Beyond: Reproductive Technologies and New Social Orders; Chapter 1-East in West?; Chapter 2-Cultural Meanings of Assisted Reproductive Technologies; Chapter 3-Middle Eastern Masculinities in the Age of Assisted Reproductive Technologies; Part II-Couples and Others: Assisting Reproduction with Third Parties; Chapter 4-The Traffic Between Women; Chapter 5-Law, Ethics, and Donor Technologies in Shia Iran; Chapter 6-Inappropriate Relations; Chapter 7-Contested Surrogacy and The Gender Order
- Part III-Testing Genes and Using Gells: Encounters with Advanced Genetic TechnologiesChapter 8-The Genesis of Embryos and Ethics in Vitro; Chapter 9-Assisted Life; Chapter 10-Doubt is the Mother of All Invention; Contributors; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786612627996
- 9781282627994
- 1282627996
- 9781845459413
- 1845459415
- OCLC:
- 645100606
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