Legitimating Life : : Adoption in the Age of Globalization and Biotechnology /

Legitimating Life : : Adoption in the Age of Globalization and Biotechnology / / Sonja van Wichelen.

The phenomenon of transnational adoption is changing in the age of globalization and biotechnology. In Legitimating Life, Sonja van Wichelen boldly describes how contemporary justifications of cross-border adoption navigate between child welfare, humanitarianism, family making, capitalism, science,...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Rutgers University Press Complete eBook-Package 2019
VerfasserIn:
Wichelen, Sonja van,
MitwirkendeR:
Manderson, Lenore,
Place / Publishing House:New Brunswick, NJ : : Rutgers University Press, , [2018]
©2019
Year of Publication:2018
Language:English
Series:Medical Anthropology
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Physical Description:1 online resource (224 p.) :; 5 b-w
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • FOREWORD
  • INTRODUCTION. Adoption in the Age of Globalization and Biotechnology
  • 1. THE ETHICAL MARKET
  • 2. DOUBLE MOVEMENTS
  • 3. VALUING BODIES
  • 4. GRIEVABLE LIVES
  • 5. ECONOMIES OF RETURN
  • CONCLUSION
  • ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  • NOTES
  • BIBLIOGRAPHY
  • INDEX
  • ABOUT THE AUTHOR

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