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Autore: |
Ettorre Elizabeth <1948->
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Titolo: |
Reproductive genetics, gender, and the body / / Elizabeth Ettore
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Pubblicazione: | London, : Routledge, 2002 |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (167 p.) |
Disciplina: | 176 |
Soggetto topico: | Human reproductive technology |
Human reproduction | |
Human genetics | |
Genetic engineering | |
Prenatal diagnosis | |
Fertility | |
Human body | |
Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Nota di contenuto: | Book Cover; Title; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction The sociology of reproductive genetics: the institutions of reproduction and gender and genes in bodies; Prenatal politics and 'normal patient families'; Biomedical knowledge and interests: genetic storytellers and normative strategies; Organisation of 'genetics work': surveillance medicine and genetic risk identity as a novelty; Shaping pregnant bodies: distorting metaphors, reproductive asceticism and genetic capital; Gendered bodies, the discourse of shame and 'disablism' |
Synchronising pregnant bodies and marking reproductive time: comparing experts' claims in Greece, the Netherlands, England and FinlandReproductive genetics and the need for embodied ethics; Bibliography; Index; | |
Sommario/riassunto: | This topical and scholarly book focuses on prenatal screening to explore how the key concepts of gender and the body are intertwined with the whole process of building genetic knowledge, including specific techniques and procedures. |
Titolo autorizzato: | Reproductive genetics, gender, and the body ![]() |
ISBN: | 1-134-61260-5 |
0-585-45212-1 | |
0-203-46148-7 | |
1-280-31765-5 | |
1-134-61261-3 | |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910170980003321 |
Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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