The Palgrave handbook of infertility in history : approaches, contexts and perspectives /: approaches, contexts and perspectives. ([2017])

• Record Type: Book
• Other Titles: Handbook of infertility in history
• Further Information: Note: Gayle Davis, Tracey Loughran, editors.
• Editors: Davis, Gayle, 1974-; Loughran, Tracey
• Contents: About this title -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Dedication -- List of figures -- List of tables -- Introduction: infertility in history: approaches, contexts and perspectives / Tracey Loughran and Gayle Davis -- Part I. Defining the "problem": perspectives on infertility: Introduction: defining the "problem": perspectives on infertility / Tracey Loughran and Gayle Davis; Great expectations: infertility, disability, and possibility / Sally Bishop Shigley; Whose fault is it anyway? Plant infertility in antiquity / Laurence M.V. Totelin; From "fructification" to "insemination": nomenclature and the practice of artificial insemination / Bridget Gurtler; Silences: coping with infertility in nineteenth-century Germany / Christina Benninghaus; Oral history and women's accounts of infertility in postwar England / Angela Davis. Part II. The body politic and the infertile body: Introduction: the body politic and the infertile body / Tracey Loughran and Gayle Davis; Sterility and sovereignty: the succession crisis of the late Valois monarchy / Penny Roberts; "If slendernesse be the cause of unfruitfulnesse; you must nourish and fatten the body": Thin Bodies and Infertility in Early Modern England / Sarah Toulalan; Obstacles to the Establishment of a Policy to Combat Infertility in France, c. 1920-1950 / Fabrice Cahen; "Phantom fathers" and "test-tube babies": debates on marriage, infertility, and artificial insemination in the British media, c. 1957-60 / Hayley Andrew; "She gets the taunts and bears the blame": infertility in contemporary India / Daniel J.R. Grey -- Part III. Situating infertility in medicine: Introduction: situating infertility in medicine / Gayle Davis and Tracey Loughran; Men's responses to infertility in late medieval England / Catherine Rider; The ancient medical sources in the chapters about sterility of Rodrigo de Castro's De universa mulierum medicina / Cristina Santos Pinheiro; Female impotence or obstruction of the womb? French doctors picturing female sterility in the 1820s / Sophie Vasset; "The great foe to the reproduction of the race": diagnosing and treating infertility caused by venereal diseases, 1880-1914 / Anne Hanley; "A tragedy as old as history": medical responses to infertility and artificial insemination by donor in 1950s Britain / Gayle Davis. Part IV. Agency and invisibility in constructions of infertility: Introduction: agency and invisibility in constructions of infertility / Tracey Loughran and Gayle Davis; The psychology of infertility in reproductive medicine and healthcare, c. 1940s-2000s / Sofia Gameiro and Jacky Boivin; The interplay between infertility and adoption in policy and practice in twentieth-century Australia / Shurlee Swain; Conditions of illusion: agency, feminism, and cultural representations of infertility in Britain, c. 1960-80 / Tracey Loughran; The Janus face of infertility in the global north and south: reviewing feminist contributions to the debate / Sara MacBride-Stewart and Rachel Simon-Kumar; Being paid to produce eggs and sperm: gender, commodification, and the bodily experiences of gamete donors / Rene Almeling; Representations of ageing and infertility in the twenty-first-century British press / Virpi Ylänne -- Part V. Reproductive technologies and imagined futures: Introduction: reproductive technologies and imagined futures / Gayle Davis and Tracey Loughran; Americans and assisted reproduction: the past as prologue / Margaret Marsh; In vitro fertilization, infertility, and the "right to a child" in 1970s and 1980s Britain / Duncan Wilson; "The authority's anti-breeding campaign": state-imposed infertility in British reprodystopia / Fran Bigman; Infertility, ethics, and the future: an exploration / Daniela Cutas -- Contributor biographies.
• Publisher Details: Basingstroke], [England : Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2017
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 362.198178009; History; Infertility, Female -- Social aspects -- History; Infertility, Female -- Treatment -- History; Infertility, Male -- Social aspects -- History; Infertility, Male -- Treatment -- History; Infertility -- Social aspects -- History; Infertility -- Treatment -- History; World history; Medicine; Social history; Infertility -- history; Medical -- History; History -- Social History; History of medicine; Social & cultural history; History -- World; General & world history; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781786847034; 1786847035; 9781137520807; 1137520809
• Related ISBNs: 9781137520791; 1137520795
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.