Haunting images : a cultural account of selective reproduction in Vietnam /

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Based on years of careful ethnographic fieldwork in Hanoi, Haunting Images offers a frank and compassionate account of the moral quandaries that accompany innovations in biomedical technology. At the center of the book are case studies of thirty pregnant women whose fetuses were labeled ""...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Gammeltoft, Tine (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berkeley, California ; Los Angeles, California : University of California Press, 2014.
Temas:
Abortion > Moral and ethical aspects > Vietnam.
Abortion > Social aspects > Vietnam.
Culture.
Abortion.
Obstetrics > Surgery.
Ethnology.
Sociology.
Anthropology.
Social sciences.
Surgery, Operative.
Manners and customs.
Culture
Abortion, Induced
Obstetric Surgical Procedures
Anthropology, Cultural
Sociology
Anthropology
Social Sciences
Surgical Procedures, Operative
Anthropology, Education, Sociology and Social Phenomena
Analytical, Diagnostic and Therapeutic Techniques and Equipment
Abortion, Eugenic
Cultural Characteristics
Sociology & Social History.
Social Sciences.
Family & Marriage.
Avortement > Aspect moral > Viêt-nam.
Avortement.
Chirurgie obstétricale.
Ethnologie.
Sociologie.
Anthropologie.
Sciences sociales.
Chirurgie opératoire.
Avortement eugénique.
Mœurs et coutumes.
culture note.
sociology.
anthropology.
social sciences.
customs (social concepts)
culture (concept)
PHILOSOPHY > Ethics & Moral Philosophy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
Surgery, Operative
Social sciences
Obstetrics > Surgery
Manners and customs
Ethnology
Abortion
Abortion > Moral and ethical aspects
Abortion > Social aspects
Biomedizin
Reproduktionsmedizin
Biotechnologie
Gynäkologie
Ultraschalldiagnostik
Schwangerschaft
Pränatale Diagnostik
Gesundheitspolitik
Schwangerschaftsabbruch
Fetus
Behinderung
Kind
Verwandtschaft
Geburt
Vietnam
Hanoi
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Prologue: haunting decisions
  • Introduction: choice as belonging
  • Sonographic imaging and selective reproduction in Hanoi
  • A collectivizing biopolitics
  • Precarious maternal belonging
  • Like a loving mother? moral engagements in medical worlds
  • How have we lived? accounting for reproductive misfortune
  • Beyond knowledge: everyday encounters with disability
  • Questions of conscience
  • Conclusion: toward an anthropology of belonging
  • Appendix: core cases
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index.

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