Technologies of Procreation: Kinship in the Age of Assisted Conception

ISBN-13: 9780415170550 / Angielski / Twarda / 1999 / 256 str.

Jeanette Edwards; Eric Hirsch; Frances Price

Opis

Technologies of Procreation bridges the gap between medical technology and cultural values. It looks at the ways in which the 'technologies of procreation' affect society from an anthropological perspective.

Spis treści

Introduction, Second Edition Introduction, First Edition: A question of context; Chapter 1, Beyond expectation: clinical practices and clinical concern; Chapter 2, Explicit connections: ethnographic enquiry in north-west England; Chapter 3, Negotiated limits: interviews in south-east England; Chapter 4, Making representations: the parliamentary debate on the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act; Chapter 4, Making representations: the parliamentary debate on the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act; Chapter 5, Regulation, substitution and possibility; Postscript First Edition: A relational view Postscript Second Edition

O autorze

Jeanette Edwards, Sarah Franklin, Eric Hirsch, Frances Price, Marilyn Strathen