03684nam 2200649 450 991045384800332120200520144314.00-520-27843-70-520-95815-210.1525/9780520958159(CKB)2550000001192105(EBL)1609001(SSID)ssj0001108284(PQKBManifestationID)11717328(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001108284(PQKBWorkID)11086740(PQKB)10067573(StDuBDS)EDZ0000229922(MiAaPQ)EBC1609001(OCoLC)869735877(MdBmJHUP)muse32342(DE-B1597)519085(DE-B1597)9780520958159(Au-PeEL)EBL1609001(CaPaEBR)ebr10833814(CaONFJC)MIL572097(EXLCZ)99255000000119210520140212h20142014 uy 0engurunu---uuuuutxtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierHaunting images a cultural account of selective reproduction in Vietnam /Tine M. GammeltoftBerkeley, California :University of California Press,2014.©20141 online resource (332 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-520-27842-9 1-306-40846-6 Includes bibliographical references and index.Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Prologue -- Introduction -- 1. Sonographic Imaging and Selective Reproduction in Hanoi -- 2. A Collectivizing Biopolitics -- 3. Precarious Maternal Belonging -- 4. "Like a Loving Mother": Moral Engagements in Medical Worlds -- 5. "How Have We Lived?" Accounting for Reproductive Misfortune -- 6. Beyond Knowledge: Everyday Encounters with Disability -- 7. Questions of Conscience -- Conclusion -- Appendix: Core Cases -- Notes -- Bibliography -- IndexBased on years of careful ethnographic fieldwork in Hanoi, Haunting Images offers a frank and compassionate account of the moral quandaries that accompany innovations in biomedical technology. At the center of the book are case studies of thirty pregnant women whose fetuses were labeled "abnormal" after an ultrasound examination. By following these women and their relatives through painful processes of reproductive decision making, Tine M. Gammeltoft offers intimate ethnographic insights into everyday life in contemporary Vietnam and a sophisticated theoretical exploration of how subjectivities are forged in the face of moral assessments and demands.Across the globe, ultrasonography and other technologies for prenatal screening offer prospective parents new information and present them with agonizing decisions never faced in the past. For anthropologists, this diagnostic capability raises important questions about individuality and collectivity, responsibility and choice. Arguing for more sustained anthropological attention to human quests for belonging, Haunting Images addresses existential questions of love and loss that concern us all.AbortionMoral and ethical aspectsVietnamAbortionSocial aspectsVietnamElectronic books.AbortionMoral and ethical aspectsAbortionSocial aspects179.7/609597Gammeltoft Tine M1045606MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910453848003321Haunting images2472034UNINA