Assisting Reproduction, Testing Genes: Global Encounters with the New Biotechnologies (Fertility, Reproduction and Sexuality: Social and Cultural Perspectives, 18)
Berghahn Books, 2009. Hardcover. New casewrapped hardcover. 8vo. (6 x 0.69 x 9 inches) Text is clean and free of marks or underlining. Index. 304 pp. Following the routinization of assisted reproduction in the industrialized world, technologies such as in vitro fertilization, preimplantation genetic diagnosis, and DNA-based paternity testing have traveled globally and are now being offered to couples in numerous non-Western countries. This volume explores the application and impact of these advanced reproductive and genetic technologies in societies across the globe. By highlighting both the cross-cultural similarities and diverse meanings that technologies may assume as they enter multiple contexts, the book aims to foster understanding of both the technologies and the settings. Enhanced by cross-cultural perspectives, the book addresses the challenges that globalization presents to local understandings of science, technology, and medicine.
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ISBN: 9781845456252
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