Conceived

Author : Wendy Kramer,Naomi Cahn
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2013-12-03
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9781101612477

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Finding Our Families by Wendy Kramer,Naomi Cahn Pdf

The first comprehensive book that offers invaluable step-by-step advice for families with donor-conceived children. Wendy Kramer, founder and director of the Donor Sibling Registry, and Naomi Cahn, family and reproductive law professor, have compiled a comprehensive and thorough guide for the growing community of families with donor-conceived children. Kramer and Cahn believe that all donor-conceived children’s desire to know their genetic family must be honored, and in Finding Our Families, they offer advice on how to foster healthy relationships within immediate families and their larger donor family networks based on openness and acceptance. With honesty and compassion, the authors offer thoughtful strategies and inspirational stories to help parents answer their own, and their children’s, questions and concerns that will surely arise, including: How to support your children’s curiosity and desire to know about their ancestry and genetic and medical background. How to help children integrate their birth story into a healthy self-image. How to help your children search for their donor or half siblings if and when they express interest in doing so. Finding Our Families opens up the lives of donor-conceived people who may be coping with uncertainty, thriving despite it, and finding novel ways to connect in this uncharted territory as they navigate the challenges and rewards of the world of donor conception.

Author : Amelie Baumann
Publisher : transcript Verlag
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2021-11-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783839457313

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Becoming Donor-Conceived by Amelie Baumann Pdf

While it has been argued that anonymity in gamete donation has been brought to an end by legal changes and technological developments, Amelie Baumann suggests that this is in fact still in transformation. By focusing on the narratives of those who were conceived with anonymously donated gametes in the UK and Germany, she examines this transformative process and the role which donor-conceived persons play in it. This book shows that it is not someone's decision to procreate that turns »being donor-conceived« into a meaningful categorisation. Rather, kinship knowledge gets activated by the donor-conceived in specific ways for »being donor-conceived« to become a powerful identification.

Author : Aimee Armande Wilson
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2015-12-17
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781501307157

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Conceived in Modernism by Aimee Armande Wilson Pdf

Current debates about birth control can be surprisingly volatile, especially given the near-universal use of contraception among American and British women. Conceived in Modernism: The Aesthetics and Politics of Birth Control offers a new perspective on these debates by demonstrating that the political positions surrounding birth control have roots in literary concerns, specifically those of modernist writers. Whereas most scholarship treats modernism and birth control activism as parallel, but ultimately separate, movements, Conceived in Modernism shows that they were deeply intertwined. This book argues not only that literary concerns exerted a lasting influence on the way activists framed the emerging politics of contraception, but that birth control activism helped shape some of modernism's most innovative concepts. By revealing the presence of literary aesthetics in the discourse surrounding birth control, Conceived in Modernism helps us see this discourse as a variable facet rather than a permanent bulwark of reproductive rights debates.

Author : Auguste Joseph Alphonse Gratry
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1860
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:600107961

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The month of Mary conceived without sin, tr., with an intr., by F.W. Faber by Auguste Joseph Alphonse Gratry Pdf

Author : Murray Newton Rothbard
Publisher : Ludwig von Mises Institute
Page : 1673 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : United States
ISBN : 9781610164863

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Conceived in Liberty by Murray Newton Rothbard Pdf

Author : Arne Ness (Naess)
Publisher : Advanced Reasoning Forum
Page : 181 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2018-11-05
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781938421426

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"Truth" as Conceived of by Those Who Are Not Professional Philosophers by Arne Ness (Naess) Pdf

Arne Ness (Naess) (1912-2009) shows with careful questioning of people who are not professional philosophers that there is no single common notion of truth, and indeed the variety of views that philosophers hold on truth are held by more or less equal proportions of those he interviews. "Non-philosophers have no theory of truth, no general opinion on the notion of truth, neither explicit nor implicit, which distinguishes them-as a group-from philosophers." p. 159 "The misconception that non-philosophers adhere-explicitly or implicitly-to a definite type of opinion on the notion of truth is primarily due to an ignorance of the extreme diversity of opinion found among non-philosophers as soon as they are invited to speak about the notion of truth. Secondarily, the misconception is due to belief in intuitively obtained information as to the "essence" of the philosophic attitude towards things in general. The attitude of non-philosophers towards the notion of truth has been deduced from alleged knowledge of their character and ideology. A deduction of this kind is meaningless and impossible, even if such knowledge should be available." p. 160 The Advanced Reasoning Forum is pleased to make available in its Classic Reprints series this exact reproduction of the 1938 text.

Author : Hans Radder
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Press
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2006-07-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780822971061

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The World Observed/The World Conceived by Hans Radder Pdf

Observation and conceptual interpretation constitute the two major ways through which human beings engage the world. The World Observed/The World Conceived presents an innovative analysis of the nature and role of observation and conceptualization. While these two actions are often treated as separate, Hans Radder shows that they are inherently interconnected-that materially realized observational processes are always conceptually interpreted and that the meaning of concepts depends on the way they structure observational processes and abstract from them. He examines the role of human action and conceptualization in realizing observational processes and develops a detailed theory of the relationship between observation, abstraction, and the meaning of concepts. The World Observed/The World Conceived will prove useful to many areas of scholarly study including ontology, epistemology, philosophy of language, philosophy of science, science studies, and cognitive science.

Author : Jana M Rupnow Lpc
Publisher : Rupnow & Associates
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2018-08-27
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1732549419

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Three Makes Baby by Jana M Rupnow Lpc Pdf

Author : Daniel Groll
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2021-08-24
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780190063061

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Conceiving People by Daniel Groll Pdf

This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International license. It is free to read at Oxford Scholarship Online and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations. Each year, tens of thousands of children are conceived with donated gametes (sperm or eggs). By some estimates, there are over one million donor-conceived people in the United States and, of course, many more the world over. Some know they are donor-conceived. Some do not. Some know the identity of their donors. Others never will. Questions about what donor-conceived people should know about their genetic progenitors are hugely significant for literally millions of people, including donor-conceived people, their parents, and donors. But the practice of gamete donation also provides a vivid occasion for thinking about questions that matter to everyone. What is the value of knowing who your genetic progenitors are? How are our identities bound up with knowing where we come from? What obligations do parents have to their children? And what makes someone a parent in the first place? In Conceiving People: Identity, Genetics and Gamete Donation, Daniel Groll argues that people who plan to create a child with donated gametes should choose a donor whose identity will be made available to the resulting child. This is not, Groll argues, because having genetic knowledge is fundamentally important. Rather, it is because donor-conceived people are likely to develop a significant interest in having genetic knowledge and parents must help satisfy their children's significant interests. In other words, because a donor-conceived person is likely to care about having genetic knowledge, their parents should care too.

Author : Robin Elise Weiss
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2004-03-08
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 9781440522796

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The Everything Getting Pregnant Book by Robin Elise Weiss Pdf

For many couples, getting pregnant can be a harrowing and emotionally draining experience. In fact, one in every six couples of childbearing age has a problem conceiving. The Everything Getting Pregnant Book is a one-of-a-kind fertility book that outlines the steps to follow when planning for a pregnancy, such as discontinuing birth control methods, exercising, and eating well. This exhaustively researched guide also provides explanations of a wide-range of fertility treatments available today, what they entail, and their success rates - allowing parents to choose their treatment wisely. The Everything Getting Pregnant Book helps readers understand: Assisted Reproductive Technology Fertility surgery Low-tech fertility aids Male and female factor infertility Medication therapy Menstrual cycle basics Whether couples are thinking about pregnancy and want to plan ahead or are already trying and have not yet met with success, The Everything Getting Pregnant Book will have them getting up for 3 A.M. feedings in no time.

Author : Bud Macfarlane
Publisher : Saint Jude Media
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2014-02-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Conceived Without Sin by Bud Macfarlane Pdf

No contemporary writer draws you into the lives of the people who populate his stories the way Bud Macfarlane does. Conceived Without Sin, his long-awaited second novel was showered with positive reviews from thousands of actual readers. It established Macfarlane as a master Catholic storyteller who is not afraid to challenge readers to question basic assumptions about faith, marriage, and friendship. With over 200,000 copies in print, Conceived will take you on an addictive journey alongside real people who struggle with real problems. Sharply funny, always unpredictable, and with characters so real you'll swear you know them from your own life. You are in this story.

Author : Amanda Porterfield
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2012-04-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9780226675121

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Conceived in Doubt by Amanda Porterfield Pdf

Americans have long acknowledged a deep connection between evangelical religion and democracy in the early days of the republic. This is a widely accepted narrative that is maintained as a matter of fact and tradition—and in spite of evangelicalism’s more authoritarian and reactionary aspects. In Conceived in Doubt, Amanda Porterfield challenges this standard interpretation of evangelicalism’s relation to democracy and describes the intertwined relationship between religion and partisan politics that emerged in the formative era of the early republic. In the 1790s, religious doubt became common in the young republic as the culture shifted from mere skepticism toward darker expressions of suspicion and fear. But by the end of that decade, Porterfield shows, economic instability, disruption of traditional forms of community, rampant ambition, and greed for land worked to undermine heady optimism about American political and religious independence. Evangelicals managed and manipulated doubt, reaching out to disenfranchised citizens as well as to those seeking political influence, blaming religious skeptics for immorality and social distress, and demanding affirmation of biblical authority as the foundation of the new American national identity. As the fledgling nation took shape, evangelicals organized aggressively, exploiting the fissures of partisan politics by offering a coherent hierarchy in which God was king and governance righteous. By laying out this narrative, Porterfield demolishes the idea that evangelical growth in the early republic was the cheerful product of enthusiasm for democracy, and she creates for us a very different narrative of influence and ideals in the young republic.

Author : Mary F. Foskett
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2002-06-25
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780253108968

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A Virgin Conceived by Mary F. Foskett Pdf

The virginity of Mary has been an influential tenet of Christian belief, a catalyst for Marian devotion, and a foundation for the construction of female Christian piety and practice. In contrast to previous biblical interpreters who have drawn on either linguistic or historical evidence to ponder whether Mary the parthenos is indeed a "virgin," in this study Mary F. Foskett takes a different course. Rather than investigating the meaning and implications of the Virgin as a reified symbol, A Virgin Conceived examines the portrayal of Mary as a virgin in two important early Christian narratives: the canonical Luke-Acts and the second-century Protevangelium of James. Foskett explores the multiple meanings and images that parthenos and virginity display in two sources and describes how they exploit this range of possible meanings in their representations of Mary. Her study departs from earlier biblical interpretation by emphasizing neither the ambiguity of the term parthenos nor the history of tradition concerning Mary. Instead, it displays the multiple meanings of "virginity" and their implications for understanding representations of the Virgin Mary.

Author : Christopher R. Pearl
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
Page : 431 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2020-08-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9780813944555

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Conceived in Crisis by Christopher R. Pearl Pdf

Conceived in Crisis argues that the American Revolution was not just the product of the Imperial Crisis, brought on by Parliament’s attempt to impose a new idea of empire on the American colonies. To an equal or greater degree, it was a response to the inability of individual colonial governments to deliver basic services, which undermined their legitimacy. Factional bickering over policy, violent extralegal regulations, and the dreadful experiences of conducting an imperial war while governing a demographically growing and geographically expanding population all led colonists and imperial officials to consider reforming the colonial governments into more powerful and coercive entities. Using Pennsylvania as a case study, Christopher Pearl demonstrates how this history of ineffective colonial governance precipitated a process of state formation that was accelerated by the demands of the Revolutionary War. The powerful state governments that resulted dominated the lives of ordinary people well into the nineteenth century. Conceived in Crisis makes sense of the trajectory from weak colonial to strong revolutionary states, and in so doing explains the limited success of efforts to consolidate state power at the national level during the early Republican period.

Author : Zeynep B. Gürtin,Charlotte Faircloth
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 110 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2020-12-23
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000333268

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Conceiving Contemporary Parenthood by Zeynep B. Gürtin,Charlotte Faircloth Pdf

With the global expansion of reproductive technologies, there are ever more ways to create a family, and more family types than ever before. This book explores the experiences of those persons - whether single, in a couple, or part of collective co-parenting arrangements; whether hetero- or homosexual; whether cis- or transgender - who are creating what has been termed ‘new family forms’ with reproductive ‘assistance’. Drawing on qualitative research from around the world, the book is particularly anchored in two bodies of social science scholarship - sociological and anthropological inquiries into the cultural impact of reproductive technologies on the one hand, and parenting culture studies on the other. It seeks to create fertile conversations between these scholarships, highlighting the intersections in the ways we think about conceiving and caring for children in today’s ‘reproductive landscape’. Focusing specifically on persons whose reproductive journeys do not conform to dominant scripts, the book traces the many ways in which intentions, expectations and technological developments contribute to changing and enduring conceptions of good parenthood in the twenty-first century. Taking a holistic perspective, the book presents deep insights into the experiences not only of (intending) parents, but also of donors, surrogates, medical professionals and activists. The collection will be of interest to an international readership of scholars of gender, reproduction, parenting and family life. The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of Anthropology & Medicine.