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E-mail Message: I thought you might be interested in this item at http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/48434908 Title: Infertility around the globe : new thinking on childlessness, gender, and reproductive technologies Author: Marcia Claire Inhorn; Frank van Balen Publisher: Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2002. ISBN/ISSN: 0520231082 9780520231085 0520231376 9780520231375 OCLC:48434908

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Infertility around the globe : new thinking on childlessness, gender, and reproductive technologies

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Infertility around the globe : new thinking on childlessness, gender, and reproductive technologies

Author:	Marcia Claire Inhorn; Frank van Balen
Publisher:	Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2002.
Edition/Format:	Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
Summary:	Examines the global impact of infertility as a major reproductive health issue, one that has profoundly affected the lives of countless women and men. This title investigates the use of reproductive technologies in non-Western countries. Read more...
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Genre/Form:	Aufsatzsammlung
Material Type:	Internet resource
Document Type:	Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors:	Marcia Claire Inhorn; Frank van Balen Find more information about:
ISBN:	0520231082 9780520231085 0520231376 9780520231375
OCLC Number:	48434908
Description:	viii, 347 p. ; 24 cm.
Contents:	Introduction : Interpreting infertility : a view from the social sciences / Frank van Balen and Marcia C. Inhorn -- The uses of a "disease" : infertility as rhetorical vehicle / Margarete Sandelowski and Sheryl de Lacey -- Fertile ground : feminists theorize infertility / Charis M. Thompson -- The psychologization of infertility / Frank van Balen -- Infertile bodies : medicalization, metaphor, and agency / Arthur L. Greil -- Deciding whether to tell children about donor insemination : an unresolved question in the United States / Gay Becker -- Conceiving the happy family : infertility and marital politics in Northern Vietnam / Melissa J. Pashigian -- Positioning gender identity in narratives of infertility : South Indian women's lives in context / Catherine Kohler Riessman -- Childlessness, adoption, and Milagros de Dios in Costa Rica / Gwynne L. Jenkins with Silvia Vargas Obando and José Badilla Navas -- Problematizing fertility : "scientific" accounts and Chadian women's narratives / Lori Leonard -- Is infertility an unrecognized public health and population problem? The view from the Cameroon grassfields / Pamela Feldman-Savelsberg -- Infertility and matrilineality : the exceptional case of the Macua of Mozambique / Trudie Gerrits -- Infertility and health care in countries with less resources : case studies from sub-Saharan Africa / Johanne Sundby -- The "local" confronts the "global" : infertile bodies and new reproductive technologies in Egypt / Marcia C. Inhorn -- Rabbis and reproduction : the uses of new reproductive technologies among ultraorthodox Jews in Israel / Susan Martha Kahn -- The politics of making modern babies in China : reproductive technologies and the "new" eugenics / Lisa Handwerker -- Conception politics : medical egos, media spotlights, and the contest over test-tube firsts in India / Aditya Bharadwaj.
Responsibility:	edited by Marcia C. Inhorn, Frank van Balen.
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