Author : Michi Knecht
Publisher : Campus Verlag
Page : 389 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2012-07
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9783593391007
Reproductive Technologies as Global Form by Michi Knecht Pdf
In the thirty-five years since the first +test-tube baby,[&½] in-vitro fertilization and other methods of reproductive assistance have become a common aspect of family life and medicine in affluent nations and, increasingly, throughout the world. How do persons seeking treatment, donors, and medical experts make use of these reproductive technologies? How in crossing borders between nations do they manage to evade legal and bioethical regulations? And how do they make sense of these new modes of making kinship against the backdrop of diverse world-views and social settings? --