Haunting images : a cultural account of selective reproduction in Vietnam / / Tine M. Gammeltoft

• Autore: Gammeltoft Tine M
• Pubblicazione: Berkeley, California : , : University of California Press, , 2014; ©2014
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (332 p.)
• Disciplina: 179.7/609597
• Soggetto topico: Abortion - Moral and ethical aspects - Vietnam; Abortion - Social aspects - Vietnam
• Soggetto non controllato: abnormal; babies; belonging; biology; biomedical technology; case studies; children; contemporary vietnam; diagnostic capability; ethnographic fieldwork; fetus; gender studies; global medicine; hanoi; kinship; love and loss; medical innovations; moral assessments; morality; motherhood; parenthood; political; pregnancy; pregnant women; prenatal screening; prospective parents; questions of belonging; reproductive decision making; technology; ultrasonography; ultrasound examination; vietnam; vietnamese mothers; vietnamese women
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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 -- Index
• Sommario/riassunto: Based 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Haunting images
• ISBN: 0-520-27843-7; 0-520-95815-2
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910791083203321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II