Birthing techno-sapiens : human-technology co-evolution and the future of reproduction /: human-technology co-evolution and the future of reproduction. (2021)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Robbie Davis-Floyd.
• Editors: Davis-Floyd, Robbie
• Contents: Introduction: Birthing Techno-Sapiens Robbie Davis-Floyd and Beverley Chalmers Part 1: From Biocultural Evolution To Human-Technology Co-Evolution 1. Birth and the Big Bad Wolf: Biocultural Evolution and Human Childbirth Melissa Cheyney and Robbie Davis-Floyd 2. Egg Freezing Activists: Extending Reproductive Futures to Cancer Patients, Single and Minority Women, and Transgender Men Marcia C. Inhorn 3. The Speculative Turn In IVF: Egg Freezing, Reproductive Futures, and the Financialization Of Fertility Lucy van de Wiel 4. Sociology as Technology: A Toolkit for Studying In Vitro Gametogenesis Noémie Merleau-Ponty 5. Reproduction, Sacrificial Life, and the Logics of Attrition in the Afterlife of Apartheid Tessa Moll 6. Making Better Babies? Past and Future State Fair Contests Evaluating Geneticized Worth Meghna Mukherjee and Margaret Eby 7. Human Germline Genome Editing and Its Tech-Sumptions Amarpreet Kaur Chapter 8. Evaluating Ectogenesis via the Metaphysics of Pregnancy Suki Finn and Sasha Isaac 9. Elective Cesarean Births in the US and the Global Cesarean Epidemic: Causes, Solutions, and Futuristic Implications Emaline Reyes 10. Cancerous Contraceptives and the Incubation of Monsters: A Quechua Reproductive Etiology and Producing Necro-Techno-Sapiens Rebecca Irons Part 2: Imagining Techno-Holistic Reproductive Futures 11. Water as a Technology to Support Embodied Autonomous Birthing Kelly Kara and Suzanne Miller 12. The Birth of a New Human Being: The Utopian Project of the Late Soviet Water Birth Movement and Its Inheritors Anna Ozhiganova 13. Safety, Co-Regulation, and Polyvagal Theory: The Autonomic Nervous System as the Missing Link in Childbirth Outcomes and Experiences Sarah Melancon 14. Family-Centered, Evidence-Based, Psycho-Socially Sensitive, and Culturally Respectful Perinatal Care: Still a Futuristic Dream! Beverley Chalmers 15. Flexible Helpers: Re-Scribing Obstetric Technologies to Generate More Viable Futures for "Good" Pregnancies and Births Annekatrin Skeide 16. Coming Home: Re-Visioning Place of Birth in the 21st Century George Parker and Suzanne Miller 17. Creating Life in Star Trek : Future Imagineering Dana Solomon and Beverley Chalmers Conclusions: Birthing Techno-Sapiens in Disruptive Times Beverley Chalmers and Robbie Davis-Floyd
• Edition: 1st
• Publisher Details: London : Routledge
• Publication Date: 2021
• Extent: 1 online resource, illustrations (black and white, and colour)
• Subjects: 618.17806; Human reproductive technology -- Social aspects; Human reproductive technology -- Moral and ethical aspects
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781000364637; 9781000364620; 9781003082422
• Related ISBNs: 9780367535445; 9780367535438
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