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Prosthetic Bodies: The Construction of the Fetus and the Couple as Patients in Reproductive Technologies

Autor I. van der Ploeg
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 19 oct 2010
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 - into medical indications for invasive, often highly experimental interventions in women's bodies. The analyses show how, through the operations and workings of reproductive technologies themselves, as well as a variety of discursive mechanisms within scientific language, today's recasting of men's fertility problems and children's congenital anomalies as women's reproductive problems comes to appear inevitable. The book challenges the ability of traditional forms of medical ethics and law to adequately identify this incremental process.
The careful analyses and arguments in Prosthetic Bodies will be relevant to students of science and technology, gender studies, philosophy, medical ethics, and law, and others interested in the cultural, ethical, and political ramifications of contemporary reproductive technologies.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9789048158669
ISBN-10: 9048158664
Pagini: 184
Ilustrații: VI, 172 p.
Dimensiuni: 170 x 244 x 10 mm
Greutate: 0.3 kg
Ediția:2001
Editura: SPRINGER NETHERLANDS
Colecția Springer
Locul publicării:Dordrecht, Netherlands

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Cuprins

The Paradox of Reproductive Technologies.- 1. Preliminary Movements: The Body of Theories, Practices, and Texts.- 2: The Making of the New Patients.- 3 Treatments for Men and Children.- 4 Elusive Body Boundaries and Individuality.- 5 “Only Angels Can Do Without Skin.” A Note on the Politics of Theorizing the Body.- Notes.- References.

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Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras