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Record Nr.

UNINA9910170980003321

Autore

Ettorre Elizabeth <1948->

Titolo

Reproductive genetics, gender, and the body / / Elizabeth Ettore

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London, : Routledge, 2002

ISBN

1-134-61260-5

0-585-45212-1

0-203-46148-7

1-280-31765-5

1-134-61261-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (167 p.)

Disciplina

176

Soggetti

Human reproductive technology

Human reproduction

Human genetics

Genetic engineering

Prenatal diagnosis

Fertility

Human body

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Book Cover; Title; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction    The sociology of reproductive genetics: the institutions of reproduction and gender and genes in bodies; Prenatal politics and 'normal patient families'; Biomedical knowledge and interests: genetic storytellers and normative strategies; Organisation of 'genetics work': surveillance medicine and genetic risk identity as a novelty; Shaping pregnant bodies: distorting metaphors, reproductive asceticism and genetic capital; Gendered bodies, the discourse of shame and 'disablism'

Synchronising pregnant bodies and marking reproductive time: comparing experts' claims in Greece, the Netherlands, England and FinlandReproductive genetics and the need for embodied ethics; Bibliography; Index;

Sommario/riassunto

This topical and scholarly book focuses on prenatal screening to



explore how the key concepts of gender and the body are intertwined with the whole process of building genetic knowledge, including specific techniques and procedures.