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| Genre/Form: | Case studies Interviews Cas, Étude de Entretiens Personal Narratives |
|---|---|
| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Becker, Gaylene. Elusive embryo. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2000 (OCoLC)623204420 |
| Material Type: | Internet resource |
| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Gaylene Becker |
| ISBN: | 9780520224315 0520224302 9780520224308 0520224310 |
| OCLC Number: | 44502298 |
| Description: | x, 320 p. ; 24 cm. |
| Contents: | Introduction: From Personal Experience to Research -- 1. Consuming Technologies -- 2. Confronting Notions of Normalcy -- 3. The Embattled Body -- 4. Genes and Generations -- 5. Experiencing Risks -- 6. Taking Action -- 7. Selling Hope -- 8. Decisions about Donors -- 9. Embodied Technology -- 10. Shifting Gears -- 11. Redefining Normalcy -- 12. Women Rethinking Parenthood -- 13. Rewriting the Family -- 14. Performing Gender. |
| Responsibility: | Gay Becker. |
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"Becker offers a fine gathering and reporting of the experiences of almost 300 women and men, interviewed individual and as couples, about infertility decisions. . . . There are many other books on reproductive technology; this one is more detailed in terms of sharing the consumer's perspective."--"Choice Read more...
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