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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Détails bibliographiques
Auteur principal: Gammeltoft, Tine (Auteur)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Los Angeles, California : University of California Press, 2014.
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Sujets:
Geburt
Verwandtschaft
Kind
Behinderung
Fetus
Schwangerschaftsabbruch
Gesundheitspolitik
Pränatale Diagnostik
Schwangerschaft
Ultraschalldiagnostik
Gynäkologie
Biotechnologie
Reproduktionsmedizin
Biomedizin
Abortion > Social aspects.
Abortion > Moral and ethical aspects.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
PHILOSOPHY > Ethics & Moral Philosophy.
social sciences.
anthropology.
sociology.
culture note.
Moeurs et coutumes.
Avortement eugenique.
Chirurgie operatoire.
Sciences sociales.
Anthropologie.
Sociologie.
Ethnologie.
Chirurgie obstetricale.
Avortement.
Culture.
Avortement > Aspect moral > Viêt-nam.
Family & Marriage.
Social Sciences.
Sociology & Social History.
Cultural Characteristics
Abortion, Eugenic
Analytical, Diagnostic and Therapeutic Techniques and Equipment
Anthropology, Education, Sociology and Social Phenomena
Surgical Procedures, Operative
Social Sciences
Anthropology
Sociology
Anthropology, Cultural
Obstetric Surgical Procedures
Abortion, Induced
Culture
Manners and customs.
Surgery, Operative.
Social sciences.
Anthropology.
Sociology.
Ethnology.
Obstetrics > Surgery.
Abortion.
Abortion > Social aspects > Vietnam.
Abortion > Moral and ethical aspects > Vietnam.
Hanoi
Vietnam.
Electronic books.
Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • 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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