Selective reproduction in the 21st century. ([2018])

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Ayo Wahlberg, Tine M. Gammeltoft, editors.
• Editors: Wahlberg, Ayo; Gammeltoft, Tine M
• Contents: Foreword: The Egg Imaginary ; Preface; Contents; List of Abbreviations ; List of Figures ; List of Tables ; 1: Introduction: Kinds of Children; From 'Helping Hand' to 'Guiding Hand'; Gametes, Embryos, Foetuses; Tracking Routes of Routinization; Tracking the Economic and Political Forces Underpinning Routinization; Conclusion: Ethnographies of SRTs; Notes; References; Sources for Table 1.1; Part I: Sex Selection; 2: Coping with Sex-Selective Abortions in Vietnam: An Ethnographic Study of Selective Reproduction as Emotional Experience; Sex-Selective Abortion: Women's Emotional Reactions. The Context of Sex Selection in Vietnam Deciding for a Sex-Selective Abortion: Emotional Ambivalence; Undergoing the Abortion: Physical and Emotional Suffering; After the Abortion: Silence, Suffering and Spiritual Relief; Conclusions; Notes; References; 3: The Development of Sex-Selective Reproductive Technologies Within Fertility, Inc. and the Anticipation of Lifestyle Sex Selection; The Agriculture Industry: The Seedbed of Sex-ƯSelective Reproductive Technologies; "A powerful approach to disease prevention": The Transfer to Human Medicine; Anticipating Lifestyle Sex Selection. Conclusion Notes; References; Part II: Preventing Disease and Disability; 4: Moral Adherers: Pregnant Women Undergoing Routine Prenatal Screening in Denmark; Prenatal Screening and Selective Abortion in a Danish Context; Moral Adherers; When you have the offer, you take it: Collectivized Responsibility of Selection; Social Imaginaries; Negotiating Wantedness; Negotiating Fetal Living; Conclusion: Structural Directiveness in Danish Antenatal Care; Notes; References; 5: Moral Bearing: The Paradox of Choice, Anxiety and Responsibility in Taiwan. Prenatal Care in Taiwan: Maternal Health Handbook and You Sheng Tracing Taiwanese Women's Experience of PST; Sunny Days and Rainy Days; A Lucky Dip; A Heavy Basket of Eggs; Amniocentesis: Accounting for PST; To Do or Not to Do: Visiting Four Obstetricians in Five Days; Paradox: The Responsibility and the Choice; Conclusion; Notes; References; 6: Selecting What? Pre-implantation Genetic Diagnosis and Screening Trajectories in Spain; Selecting What? PGD, Reproductive Autonomy and Genetic Reductionism; Aims and Methodology; Regulating Pre-implantation Genetic Testing in Spain. Main Findings: Pre-implantation Trajectories Women Undergoing PGS; Women Undergoing PGD with Chromosome Translocation; Women Undergoing PGD for Molecular Diseases; Conclusion; Notes; References; Part III: Selecting Traits; 7: They Don't Just Take a Random Egg: Egg Selection in the United States; Methods and Background; Recruiting Egg Vendors; Screening Candidates; Marketing Eggs; Matching Eggs in New York and California; Race and the US Gamete Market; Conclusion: Selling Eggs on the International Market; References.
• Publisher Details: Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2018
• Copyright Date: 2018
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 616.6/920642; Social sciences; Human reproductive technology; Sex preselection; Preimplantation genetic diagnosis; Genetic screening; Technology—Sociological aspects; Medical anthropology; Social medicine; Bioethics; Medical ethics; HEALTH & FITNESS -- Diseases -- General; MEDICAL -- Clinical Medicine; MEDICAL -- Diseases; MEDICAL -- Evidence-Based Medicine; MEDICAL -- Internal Medicine; Genetic screening; Human reproductive technology; Preimplantation genetic diagnosis; Sex preselection; Social Science -- Anthropology -- Physical; Social Science -- Disease & Health Issues; Social Science -- Sociology of Religion; Philosophy -- Ethics & Moral Philosophy; Medical -- Ethics; Medical anthropology; Medical sociology; Religious groups: social & cultural aspects; Bio-ethics; Social Science -- Sociology -- General; Sociology; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 3319582208; 9783319582207
• Related ISBNs: 9783319582191
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed August 24, 2017).
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