The Palgrave Handbook Of Infertility In History: Approaches, Contexts And Perspectives
by Gayle Davis /
2017 / English / PDF
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This ground-breaking, interdisciplinary volume provides an
overdue assessment of how infertility has been understood,
treated and experienced in different times and places. It brings
together scholars from disciplines including history, literature,
psychology, philosophy, and the social sciences to create the
first large-scale review of recent research on the history of
infertility. Through exploring an unparalleled range of
chronological periods and geographical regions, it develops
historical perspectives on an apparently transhistorical
experience. It shows how experiences of infertility, access to
treatment, and medical perspectives on this ‘condition’ have been
mediated by social, political, and cultural discourses. The
handbook reflects on and interrogates different approaches to the
history of infertility, including the potential of
cross-disciplinary perspectives and the uses of different kinds
of historical source material, and includes lists of research
resources to aid teachers and researchers. It is an essential
‘go-to’ point for anyone interested in infertility and its
history.
This ground-breaking, interdisciplinary volume provides an
overdue assessment of how infertility has been understood,
treated and experienced in different times and places. It brings
together scholars from disciplines including history, literature,
psychology, philosophy, and the social sciences to create the
first large-scale review of recent research on the history of
infertility. Through exploring an unparalleled range of
chronological periods and geographical regions, it develops
historical perspectives on an apparently transhistorical
experience. It shows how experiences of infertility, access to
treatment, and medical perspectives on this ‘condition’ have been
mediated by social, political, and cultural discourses. The
handbook reflects on and interrogates different approaches to the
history of infertility, including the potential of
cross-disciplinary perspectives and the uses of different kinds
of historical source material, and includes lists of research
resources to aid teachers and researchers. It is an essential
‘go-to’ point for anyone interested in infertility and its
history.