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Making a Good Life: An Ethnography of Nature, Ethics, and Reproduction
Katharine Dow
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Description for Making a Good Life: An Ethnography of Nature, Ethics, and Reproduction
Hardback. Num Pages: 256 pages, 3 halftones. 1 map. BIC Classification: JFMG; JHBK; JHMC; MFKC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
Making a Good Life takes a timely look at the ideas and values that inform how people think about reproduction and assisted reproductive technologies. In an era of heightened scrutiny about parenting and reproduction, fears about environmental degradation, and the rise of the biotechnology industry, Katharine Dow delves into the reproductive ethics of those who do not have a personal stake in assisted reproductive technologies, but who are building lives inspired and influenced by environmentalism and concerns about the natural world's future. Moving away from experiences of infertility treatments tied to the clinic and laboratory, Dow instead explores reproduction ... Read more
Making a Good Life takes a timely look at the ideas and values that inform how people think about reproduction and assisted reproductive technologies. In an era of heightened scrutiny about parenting and reproduction, fears about environmental degradation, and the rise of the biotechnology industry, Katharine Dow delves into the reproductive ethics of those who do not have a personal stake in assisted reproductive technologies, but who are building lives inspired and influenced by environmentalism and concerns about the natural world's future. Moving away from experiences of infertility treatments tied to the clinic and laboratory, Dow instead explores reproduction ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
248
Place of Publication
New Jersey, United States
ISBN
9780691167480
SKU
V9780691167480
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About Katharine Dow
Katharine Dow is a research associate in the Reproductive Sociology Research Group at the University of Cambridge.
Reviews for Making a Good Life: An Ethnography of Nature, Ethics, and Reproduction
"[Dow's] musings about dong anthropological fieldwork in Spey Bay add a layer of brilliant reflexivity to her scholarly account."
Barbara J. King, Times Literary Supplement
Barbara J. King, Times Literary Supplement