Legitimating life : adoption in the age of globalization and biotechnology /

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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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Wichelen, Sonja van (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New Brunswick, New Jersey : Rutgers University Press, [2019]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Intercountry adoption.
Human reproductive technology > Social aspects.
Adoption internationale.
Procréation médicalement assistée > Aspect social.
HEALTH & FITNESS / General.
Human reproductive technology > Social aspects
Intercountry adoption
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: adoption in the age of globalization and biotechnology
  • The ethical market: between reproduction and humanitarianism
  • Double movements: international law as transparency device
  • Valuing bodies: somatic ethics in the biomedicalization of adoption
  • Grievable lives: the adoptee and the child migrant
  • Economies of return: openness, knowledge, relations
  • Conclusion: legitimating life.

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