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God's Laboratory : Assisted Reproduction in the Andes /
Assisted reproduction, with its test tubes, injections, and gamete donors, often raises important concerns regarding matters of life and kinship. Yet these concerns do not take the same form everywhere around the world. In this innovative ethnography of in vitro fertilization in Ecuador, Elizabeth R...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Berkeley :
University of California Press,
2012.
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
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| 505 | 0 | |a Cover Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication Page; Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Cast of Characters; Preface; Introduction: Reproductive Assistance; Corporeal Punishment: Sandra; 1. Private Medicine and the Law of Life; Crazy for Bingo: Consuelo; 2. Assisted Whiteness; Yo Soy Teresa la Fea/Ugly Teresa; 3. White Beauty: Gamete Donation in a Mestizo Nation; When Blood Calls: Frida and Anabela; 4. Egg Economies and the Traffic between Women; Abandonment: Vanessa; 5. On Ice: Embryo Destinies; Conclusion: Care-Worthy; Notes; References; Index. | |
| 520 | |a Assisted reproduction, with its test tubes, injections, and gamete donors, often raises important concerns regarding matters of life and kinship. Yet these concerns do not take the same form everywhere around the world. In this innovative ethnography of in vitro fertilization in Ecuador, Elizabeth Roberts shows how having children through biotechnological intervention is not only tolerated, it is embraced by the population, despite widespread poverty and official condemnation by the Catholic Church. Roberts takes us into clinics, laboratories, and homes, providing a textured picture of the int. | ||
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