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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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Book category Books in English Society & social sciences Sociology & anthropology Anthropology

• Full title: Reproductive Disruptions
• Subtitle: Gender, Technology, and Biopolitics in the New Millennium
• Author: Marcia C. Inhorn
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 256
• EAN: 9781845454067
• ISBN: 1845454065
• ID: 05097873
• Publisher: Berghahn Books
• Weight: 472 g
• Dimensions: 229 × 152 × 18 mm
• Date of publishing: 01. October 2007

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