Reproductive Disruptions
Publisher： Berghahn Books
Publication year： 2007
E-ISBN: 9780857455635
P-ISBN(Paperback): 9781845455958
P-ISBN(Hardback): 9781845455958
Subject： C91 Sociology;R3 Basic Medical
Keyword： null 基础医学,社会学SociologyBasic Medical
Language： ENG
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Description
Nominated for the 2007 Book Prize by the Council on Anthropology and Reproduction (AAA)
Reproductive disruptions, such as infertility, pregnancy loss, adoption, and childhood disability, are among the most distressing experiences in people's lives. Based on research by leading medical anthropologists from around the world, this book examines such issues as local practices detrimental to safe pregnancy and birth; conflicting reproductive goals between women and men; miscommunications between pregnant women and their genetic counselors; cultural anxieties over gamete donation and adoption; the contested meanings of abortion; cultural critiques of hormone replacement therapy; and the globalization of new pharmaceutical and assisted reproductive technologies. This breadth - with its explicit move from the "local" to the "global," from the realm of everyday reproductive practice to international programs and policies - illuminates most effectively the workings of power, the tensions between women's and men's reproductive agency, and various cultural and structural inequalities in reproductive health.
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