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Infertility around the Globe
New Thinking on Childlessness, Gender and Reproductive Technologies
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This exceptional collection of essays breaks new ground by examining the global impact of infertility as a major reproductive health issue, one that has profoundly affected the lives of countless women and men. Based on original research by seventeen internationally acclaimed social scientists, it is the first book to investigate the use of reproductive technologies in non-Western countries. Provocative and incisive, it is the most substantial work to date on the subject of infertility.
With infertility as the lens through which a wide range of social issues is explored, the contributors address a far-reaching array of topics: why infertility has been neglected in population studies, how the deeply gendered nature of infertility sets the blame squarely on women's shoulders, how infertility and its treatment transform family dynamics and relationships, and the distribution of medical and marital power. The chapters present informed and sophisticated investigations into cultural perceptions of infertility in numerous countries, including China, India, the nations of sub-Saharan Africa, Vietnam, Costa Rica, Egypt, Israel, the United States, and the nations of Europe.
Poised to become the quintessential reference on infertility from an international social science perspective, Infertility around the Globe makes a powerful argument that involuntary childlessness is a complex phenomenon that has far-reaching significance worldwide.
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University of California Press; April 2002
356 pages; ISBN 9780520927810
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356 pages; ISBN 9780520927810
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Subject categories
- Academic > Health Sciences > Internal medicine > Specialties of internal medicine > Diseases of the genitourinary system. Urology
- Academic > Health Sciences > Gynecology and obstetrics > Conception. Artificial insemination. Contraception
- Academic > Health Sciences > Internal medicine > Constitutional diseases (General)
- Social Science > Anthropology > Cultural
- Medicine > Reproductive Medicine & Technology
- Science > Biology
- Social Science > Women's Studies
- Social Science > Demography
- Social Science > Social Issues
- Social Science > Gender Studies
ISBNs
0520927818
9780520231085
9780520927810
