Infertility : tracing the history of a transformative term / Robin E. Jensen.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Jensen, Robin E., 1979- author.

Series:

RSA series in transdisciplinary rhetoric.

The RSA series in transdisciplinary rhetoric

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Infertility, Female.

Medicalization.

Rhetoric.

Infertility, Female--Social aspects.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiii, 225 pages :) illustrations ;

Place of Publication:

University Park, Pennsylvania : The Pennsylvania State University Press, [2016]

Language Note:

In English.

Biography/History:

Jensen Robin E. : Robin E. Jensen is Associate Professor of Communication at the University of Utah and the author of Dirty Words: The Rhetoric of Public Sex Education in the United States, 1870-1924 (2010).Robin E. Jensen is Associate Professor of Communication at the University of Utah and the author of Dirty Words: The Rhetoric of Public Sex Education in the United States, 1870-1924 (2010).

Summary:

"Analyzes how infertility has been defined in and across technical, mainstream, and lay communities, and how different, emergent conceptualizations of infertility have had implications for individuals and the societies in which they live"--Provided by publisher.

Contents:

From barren to sterile : the evolution of a mixed metaphor

Vital forces conserved : narrating energy conservation and human reproduction at the turn of the century

Improving upon nature : the rise of reproductive endocrinology and chemical theories of fertility

Psychogenic infertility : the unconscious defense against motherhood

Fertility in clinical time : the integration of scientific specialties as infertility studies.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 189-209) and index.

This eBook is made available Open Access under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780271078212

0271078219

OCLC:

1080551472