Prosthetic Bodies
Irma Van Der Ploeg
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Description for Prosthetic Bodies
Hardback. Through various analysis, this book shows how, through the operations and workings of reproductive technologies themselves, as well as a variety of discursive mechanisms within scientific language, recasting of men's fertility problems and children's congenital anomalies as women's reproductive problems comes to appear inevitable. Num Pages: 172 pages, biography. BIC Classification: MFKC1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 7. Weight in Grams: 770.
Among the vast literature on contemporary reproductive technologies, Prosthetic Bodies stands out in its effective combination of insights, methods, and theories from the history of medicine, constructivist science and technology studies, and feminist theory. The double focus on IVF and related techniques, and fetal treatment and surgery, enables the identification of debatable tendencies within today's reproductive medicine: the translation of ever more medical problems basically unrelated to women's own reproductive health - and, in the case of fetal diagnosis and treatment, sometimes formerly even unrelated to reproduction as such - ... Read more
Among the vast literature on contemporary reproductive technologies, Prosthetic Bodies stands out in its effective combination of insights, methods, and theories from the history of medicine, constructivist science and technology studies, and feminist theory. The double focus on IVF and related techniques, and fetal treatment and surgery, enables the identification of debatable tendencies within today's reproductive medicine: the translation of ever more medical problems basically unrelated to women's own reproductive health - and, in the case of fetal diagnosis and treatment, sometimes formerly even unrelated to reproduction as such - ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Kluwer Academic Publishers United States
Number of pages
172
Condition
New
Number of Pages
172
Place of Publication
New York, NY, United States
ISBN
9781402001161
SKU
V9781402001161
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Ref
99-15
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