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Record Nr.

UNINA9910495872903321

Autore

Clarke Adele

Titolo

Disciplining reproduction : modernity, American life sciences, and "the problems of sex" / / Adele E. Clarke

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berkeley, : University of California Press, c1998

ISBN

0-585-06870-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xvii, 421 p. ) : ill

Disciplina

612.6/07/2073

Soggetti

Reproduction - Research - United States - History - 20th century

Reproductive technology - Social aspects

Sex (Biology) - Research - United States - History - 20th century

Life sciences - Research - United States - History - 20th century

Women - Health and hygiene

Animal breeding

Reproduction - United States

Research - United States - History

Animal Husbandry - United States

Biological Science Disciplines - United States

History, 20th Century - United States

Reproductive Medicine - United States

Women's Health - United States

Reproduction - History - Research - 20th century - United States

Reproductive technology - Social aspects - 20th century - United States

Sex (Biology) - Research - History - 20th century - United States

Life sciences - History - Research

Social Sciences

Communication

Reproductive Techniques

Ethics

Reproductive Health Services

Financing, Organized

Health

Economics

Ownership

Psychology, Social

Sexual Behavior

Organizations

Sociology



Genital Diseases, Female

Human Rights

Health Occupations

Health Care Economics and Organizations

Population Dynamics

Reproductive Physiological Phenomena

Persons

Occupational Groups

Social Behavior

Natural Science Disciplines

Technology, Industry, and Agriculture

Genital Diseases, Male

Schools

Investigative Techniques

Interpersonal Relations

Science

Humanities

Community Health Services

History, Modern 1601-

Demography

Health Services

Named Groups

Anthropology, Education, Sociology and Social Phenomena

Behavior

Therapeutics

Education

Behavior and Behavior Mechanisms

Analytical, Diagnostic and Therapeutic Techniques and Equipment

Disciplines and Occupations

Female Urogenital Diseases

Organization and Administration

Male Urogenital Diseases

Information Science

Philosophy

Delivery of Health Care

Population Characteristics

Reproductive and Urinary Physiological Phenomena

Technology, Industry, Agriculture

Epidemiologic Measurements

Disease

Health Services Administration

Health Care Facilities Workforce and Services

Behavioral Sciences

Female Urogenital Diseases and Pregnancy Complications

Psychiatry and Psychology

Phenomena and Processes

Public Health

Behavioral Disciplines and Activities

Environment and Public Health

Animal Husbandry



Financial Support

Interdisciplinary Communication

Social Control, Formal

Biology

Interprofessional Relations

Men

Morals

Sexuality

Sociology, Medical

Government

Animal Welfare

Family Planning Services

History

Social Dominance

Eugenics

History, 20th Century

Population Control

Reproduction

Reproductive Techniques, Assisted

Agriculture

Animal Experimentation

Women's Rights

Federal Government

Genetics

Infertility

Medicine

Research

Contraception

Financing, Government

Private Sector

Women

Women's Health

Research Personnel

Biomedical Research

Politics

Universities

Biological Science Disciplines

Reproductive Medicine

Human Anatomy & Physiology

Health & Biological Sciences

Physiology

History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph



Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 333-410) and index.

Nota di contenuto

; 1. Framing the American reproductive sciences ; 2. Situating the reproductive sciences ; 3. Forming the discipline: physiological approaches, 1910-25 ; 4. Seizing the means of studying reproduction: the NRC Committee on Problems of Sex ; 5. Coalescing the discipline: endocrinological approaches, 1925-40 ; 6. Negotiating the contraceptive quid pro quo: birth control advocates and reproductive scientists, 1910-63 ; 7. Funding the reproductive sciences ; 8. Illegitimate science: reproducing controversy ; 9. Disciplining reproduction in modernity.