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Autore |
Melhuus Marit |
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Titolo |
Problems of conception [[electronic resource] ] : issues of law, biotechnology, and kinship / / Marit Melhuus |
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Pubbl/distr/stampa |
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New York, : Berghahn Books, 2012 |
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ISBN |
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1-283-65558-6 |
0-85745-503-6 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (186 p.) |
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Classificazione |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Conception |
Reproduction - Social aspects - Norway |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE AND ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- Chapter 1 FRAMING THE ISSUES -- Chapter 2 CHILDREN OF ONE’S OWN -- Chapter 3 BETTER SAFE THAN SORRY: LEGISLATING ASSISTED CONCEPTION -- Chapter 4 THE INVIOLABILITY OF MOTHERHOOD -- Chapter 5 THE SORTING SOCIETY: KNOWLEDGE, SELECTION, ETHICS -- Chapter 6 CONCLUDING REFLECTIONS: LEGAL (UN)CERTAINTIES -- Postscript SOME NOTES ON METHODOLOGY -- Appendix FERTILITY RATES, TRENDS AND POLICIES IN NORWAY -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- INDEX |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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The Biotechnology Act in Norway, one of the most restrictive in Europe, forbids egg donation and surrogacy and has rescinded the anonymity clause with respect to donor insemination. Thus, it limits people's choice as to how they can procreate within the boundaries of the nation state. The author pursues this significant datum ethnographically and addresses the issues surrounding contemporary biopolitics in Norway. This involves investigating such fundamental questions as the relation between individual and society, meanings of kinship and relatedness, the moral status of the embryo and the rol |
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