LEADER 05288nam 2200769Ia 450 001 9910953496903321 005 20251117120110.0 010 $a9786612356100 010 $a9781282356108 010 $a1282356100 010 $a9780520927810 010 $a0520927818 010 $a9781597346771 010 $a1597346772 024 7 $a10.1525/9780520927810 035 $a(CKB)1000000000004001 035 $a(EBL)227302 035 $a(OCoLC)475933605 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000280761 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11207286 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000280761 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10299923 035 $a(PQKB)11344367 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC227302 035 $a(OCoLC)59671566 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse30503 035 $a(DE-B1597)519326 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780520927810 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL227302 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10058559 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL235610 035 $a(Perlego)551926 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000004001 100 $a20011113d2002 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurnn#---|u||u 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 00$aInfertility around the globe $enew thinking on childlessness, gender, and reproductive technologies /$fedited by Marcia C. Inhorn, Frank van Balen 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aBerkeley $cUniversity of California Press$dc2002 215 $a1 online resource (356 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 0 $a9780520231085 311 0 $a0520231082 311 0 $a9780520231375 311 0 $a0520231376 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$t1. Introduction. Interpreting Infertility: A View from the Social Sciences --$t2. The Uses of a "Disease": Infertility as Rhetorical Vehicle --$t3. Fertile Ground: Feminists Theorize Infertility --$t4. The Psychologization of Infertility --$t5. Infertile Bodies: Medicalization, Metaphor, and Agency --$t6. Deciding Whether to Tell Children about Donor Insemination: An Unresolved Question in the United States --$t7. Conceiving the Happy Family: Infertility and Marital Politics in Northern Vietnam --$t8. Positioning Gender Identity in Narratives of Infertility: South Indian Women's Lives in Context --$t9. Childlessness, Adoption, and Milagros de Dios in Costa Rica --$t10. Problematizing Fertility: "Scientific" Accounts and Chadian Women's Narratives --$t11. Is Infertility an Unrecognized Public Health and Population Problem? The View from the Cameroon Grassfields --$t12. Infertility and Matrilineality: The Exceptional Case of the Macua of Mozambique --$t13. Infertility and Health Care in Countries with Less Resources: Case Studies from Sub-Saharan Africa --$t14. The "Local" Confronts the "Global": Infertile Bodies and New Reproductive Technologies in Egypt --$t15. Rabbis and Reproduction: The Uses of New Reproductive Technologies among Ultraorthodox Jews in Israel --$t16. The Politics of Making Modern Babies in China: Reproductive Technologies and the "New" Eugenics --$t17. Conception Politics: Medical Egos, Media Spotlights, and the Contest over Test-Tube Firsts in India --$tContributors --$tIndex 330 $aThis exceptional collection of essays breaks new ground by examining the global impact of infertility as a major reproductive health issue, one that has profoundly affected the lives of countless women and men. Based on original research by seventeen internationally acclaimed social scientists, it is the first book to investigate the use of reproductive technologies in non-Western countries. Provocative and incisive, it is the most substantial work to date on the subject of infertility. With infertility as the lens through which a wide range of social issues is explored, the contributors address a far-reaching array of topics: why infertility has been neglected in population studies, how the deeply gendered nature of infertility sets the blame squarely on women's shoulders, how infertility and its treatment transform family dynamics and relationships, and the distribution of medical and marital power. The chapters present informed and sophisticated investigations into cultural perceptions of infertility in numerous countries, including China, India, the nations of sub-Saharan Africa, Vietnam, Costa Rica, Egypt, Israel, the United States, and the nations of Europe. Poised to become the quintessential reference on infertility from an international social science perspective, Infertility around the Globe makes a powerful argument that involuntary childlessness is a complex phenomenon that has far-reaching significance worldwide. 606 $aInfertility$zDeveloping countries 606 $aInfertility$xSocial aspects 606 $aInfertility$xPsychological aspects 615 0$aInfertility 615 0$aInfertility$xSocial aspects. 615 0$aInfertility$xPsychological aspects. 676 $a616.6/92 701 $aInhorn$b Marcia C.$f1957-$01118466 701 $aBalen$b Frank van$01869052 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910953496903321 996 $aInfertility around the globe$94477228 997 $aUNINA