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European kinship in the age of biotechnology [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Jeanette Edwards and Carles Salazar



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Titolo: European kinship in the age of biotechnology [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Jeanette Edwards and Carles Salazar Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: New York, : Berghahn Books, c2009
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (232 p.)
Disciplina: 306.83094
Soggetto topico: Kinship - Europe
Artificial insemination, Human - Social aspects - Europe
Human reproduction - Social aspects - Europe
Altri autori: EdwardsJeanette <1954->  
SalazarCarles  
Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [201]-216) and index.
Nota di contenuto: Title page-European Kinship in the Age of Biotechnology; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Chapter 1-Knowing and Relating: Kinship, Assisted Reproductive Technologies and the New GEnetics; Chapter 2-Imagining Assisted Reproductive Technologies: Family, Kinship and 'Local Thinking' in Lithuania; Chapter 3-Eating Genes and Raising People: Kinship Thinking and Genetically Modified Food in the North of England; Chapter 4-The Family Body: Persons, Bodies and Resemblance; Chapter 5-The Contribution of Homoparental Families to the Current Debate on Kinship
Chapter 6-Corpo-Real Identities: Perspectives from a Gypsy CommunityChapter 7-Incest, Embodiment, Genes and Kinship; Chapter 8-'Loving Mothers' at Work: Raising Others' Children and Building Families with the Intention to Love and Take Care; Chapter 9-Adoption and Assisted Conception: One Universe of Unnatural Procreation. An Examination of Norwegian Legislation; Chapter 10-Fields of Post-Human Kinship; Chapter 11-Are Genes Good to Think With?; Notes on Contributors; Bibliography; Author Index; Subject Index
Sommario/riassunto: Interest in the study of kinship, a key area of anthropological enquiry, has recently reemerged. Dubbed 'the new kinship', this interest was stimulated by the 'new genetics' and revived interest in kinship and family patterns. This volume investigates the impact of biotechnology on contemporary understandings of kinship, of family and 'belonging' in a variety of European settings and reveals similarities and differences in how kinship is conceived. What constitutes kinship for different publics? How significant are biogenetic links? What does family resemblance tell us? Why is genetically modi
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ISBN: 0-85745-650-4
1-282-62751-1
9786612627514
1-84545-892-3
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910791364503321
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Serie: Fertility, reproduction, and sexuality ; ; v. 14.