Cultural conceptions [[electronic resource] ] : on reproductive technologies and the remaking of life / / Valerie Hartouni
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Hartouni Valerie
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| Titolo: |
Cultural conceptions [[electronic resource] ] : on reproductive technologies and the remaking of life / / Valerie Hartouni
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| Pubblicazione: | Minneapolis, : University of Minnesota Press, c1997 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (188 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 176 |
| Soggetto topico: | Human reproductive technology - Social aspects |
| Human reproductive technology - Moral and ethical aspects | |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 157-170) and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 Impaired Sight or Partial Vision? Tracking Reproductive Bodies; 2 Containing Women: Reproductive Discourse(s) in the 1980's; 3 Fetal Exposures: Abortion Politics and the Optics of Allusion; 4 Reproducing Public Meanings: In the Matter of Baby M; 5 Breached Birth: Anna Johnson and the Reproduction of Raced Bodies; 6 ""On Breeding Good Stock"": Reflections on Herrnstein and Murray's Bell Curve; 7 Replicating the Singular Self: Some Thoughts on Cloning and Cultural Identity; Notes; Bibliography; Index |
| Sommario/riassunto: | A thoughtful examination considering the cultural effects of new reproductive technologies as reflected in video images, popular journalism, scientific debates, legal briefs, and policy decisions. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Cultural conceptions |
| ISBN: | 0-8166-8656-4 |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910784367903321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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