Fear, Wonder, and Science in the New Age of Reproductive Biotechnology /

Fear, Wonder, and Science in the New Age of Reproductive Biotechnology / / Clara Pinto-Correia, Scott Gilbert.

How does one make decisions today about in vitro fertilization, abortion, egg freezing, surrogacy, and other matters of reproduction? This book provides the intellectual and emotional intelligence to help individuals make informed choices amid misinformation and competing claims. Scott Gilbert and C...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Columbia University Press Complete eBook-Package 2017
VerfasserIn:
Gilbert, Scott,
Pinto-Correia, Clara,
MitwirkendeR:
Gilbert, Scott,
Haraway, Donna,
Pinto-Correia, Clara,
Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [2017]
©2017
Year of Publication:2017
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (224 p.) :; 17 b&w illustrations
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • FOREWORD
  • PREFACE
  • ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  • PART I. THE IMPORTANCE OF THE STORY
  • 1. CONCEPTUAL DETOX
  • 2. STORIES OF INFERTILITY AND ITS CONQUEST
  • PART II. FERTILIZATION AND ITS DISCONTENTS
  • 3. FERTILIZATIONES
  • 4. FERTILITY RITES
  • PART III. THE MOTHER AND HER FETUS
  • 5. NORMAL DEVELOPMENT AND THE BEGINNING OF HUMAN LIFE
  • 6. TECHNOLOGICAL MOTHERHOOD
  • PART IV. IMPROVING THE HUMAN CONDITION THROUGH BIOLOGY
  • 7. CLONING ANIMALS, CELLS, AND GENES
  • 8. GLORY DAYS
  • PART V. EPILOGUES
  • 9. INFERTILITY WARS
  • 10. THE HUMAN CONDITION OF FEAR AND WONDER
  • APPENDIX A. FIELD GUIDE TO ASSISTED REPRODUCTIVE TECHNOLOGIES
  • GLOSSARY
  • NOTES
  • REFERENCES
  • INDEX

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