Technologies of Procreation: Kinship in the Age of Assisted Conception

by Jeanette Edwards, Sarah Franklin, Eric Hirsch, Frances Price, Marilyn Strathern

Overview

Technologies of Procreation bridges the gap between medical technology and cultural values. It looks at the ways in which the 'technologies of procreation' affect society from an anthropological perspective.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780415170567
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	01/14/1999
Edition description:	REV
Pages:	250
Product dimensions:	5.44(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

About the Author

Jeanette Edwards, Sarah Franklin, Eric Hirsch, Frances Price, Marilyn Strathen

Table of Contents

Introduction, Second Edition Introduction, First Edition: A question of context; Chapter 1, Beyond expectation: clinical practices and clinical concern; Chapter 2, Explicit connections: ethnographic enquiry in north-west England; Chapter 3, Negotiated limits: interviews in south-east England; Chapter 4, Making representations: the parliamentary debate on the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act; Chapter 4, Making representations: the parliamentary debate on the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act; Chapter 5, Regulation, substitution and possibility; Postscript First Edition: A relational view Postscript Second Edition

Editorial Reviews

An anthropology research team drawn from four British universities explores how assisted conception techniques create the potential for a redefinition of relationships, because it is now possible to create life on behalf of another person. They draw data and ideas from ethnographic studies, household interviews, and debates in Parliament and among clinicians. Distributed by St. Martin's Press. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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