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| Document Type: | Book |
|---|---|
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Marcia Claire Inhorn |
| ISBN: | 0812232216 9780812232219 0812215281 9780812215281 |
| OCLC Number: | 30074129 |
| Description: | xxvii, 441 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Contents: | Preface: Hind's Story -- Problem, Place, and Procreative Theory -- The Infertility Problem in Egypt -- Ancient Alexandria and Its Modern Poor -- Past and Present in Theories of Procreation -- Ethnogynecology -- Healers, Herbalists, and Holy Ones -- Kabsa and Threatened Fertility -- From Humidity to Sorcery -- Divinity, Profanity, and Pilgrimage -- Biogynecology -- Biomedical Bodies -- Untherapeutic Therapeutics -- The Injection of Spermatic Animals -- Babies of the Tubes -- Futures for the Infertile -- Fieldwork -- Informants. |
| Responsibility: | Marcia C. Inhorn. |
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