Selective Reproduction In The 21st Century
by Ayo Wahlberg /
2017 / English / PDF
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This book explores how conditions for childbearing are changing in
the 21st century under the impact of new biomedical technologies.
Selective reproductive technologies (SRTs) - technologies that aim
to prevent or promote the birth of particular kinds of children –
are increasingly widespread across the globe. Wahlberg and
Gammeltoft bring together a collection of essays providing unique
ethnographic insights on how SRTs are made available within
different cultural, socio-economic and regulatory settings and how
people perceive and make use of these new possibilities as they
envision and try to form their future lives. Topics covered include
sex-selective abortions, termination of pregnancies following
detection of fetal anomalies during prenatal screening, the
development of preimplantation genetic diagnosis techniques as well
as the screening of potential gamete donors by egg agencies and
sperm banks. This is invaluable reading for scholars of medical
anthropology, medical sociology and science and technology studies,
as well as for the fields of gender studies, reproductive health
and genetic disease research.
This book explores how conditions for childbearing are changing in
the 21st century under the impact of new biomedical technologies.
Selective reproductive technologies (SRTs) - technologies that aim
to prevent or promote the birth of particular kinds of children –
are increasingly widespread across the globe. Wahlberg and
Gammeltoft bring together a collection of essays providing unique
ethnographic insights on how SRTs are made available within
different cultural, socio-economic and regulatory settings and how
people perceive and make use of these new possibilities as they
envision and try to form their future lives. Topics covered include
sex-selective abortions, termination of pregnancies following
detection of fetal anomalies during prenatal screening, the
development of preimplantation genetic diagnosis techniques as well
as the screening of potential gamete donors by egg agencies and
sperm banks. This is invaluable reading for scholars of medical
anthropology, medical sociology and science and technology studies,
as well as for the fields of gender studies, reproductive health
and genetic disease research.