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



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Autore: Gammeltoft Tine M Visualizza persona
Titolo: Haunting images : a cultural account of selective reproduction in Vietnam / / Tine M. Gammeltoft Visualizza cluster
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  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 0-520-27843-7
0-520-95815-2
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910824526903321
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