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Assisting reproduction, testing Genes : global encounters with new biotechnologies /

Following the routinization of assisted reproduction in the industrialized world, technologies such as in vitro fertilization, preimplantation genetic diagnosis, and DNA-based paternity testing have traveled globally and are now being offered to couples in numerous non-Western countries. This volume...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Birenbaum-Carmeli, Daphna (Editor ), Inhorn, Marcia C., 1957- (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Berghahn Books, 2009.
Colección:Fertility, reproduction, and sexuality ; v. 18.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Title page-Assisting Reproduction, Testing Genes; Contents; Introduction; Part I-Families and Beyond: Reproductive Technologies and New Social Orders; Chapter 1-East in West?; Chapter 2-Cultural Meanings of Assisted Reproductive Technologies; Chapter 3-Middle Eastern Masculinities in the Age of Assisted Reproductive Technologies; Part II-Couples and Others: Assisting Reproduction with Third Parties; Chapter 4-The Traffic Between Women; Chapter 5-Law, Ethics, and Donor Technologies in Shia Iran; Chapter 6-Inappropriate Relations; Chapter 7-Contested Surrogacy and The Gender Order.
  • Part III-Testing Genes and Using Gells: Encounters with Advanced Genetic TechnologiesChapter 8-The Genesis of Embryos and Ethics in Vitro; Chapter 9-Assisted Life; Chapter 10-Doubt is the Mother of All Invention; Contributors; Index.