Haunting images : a cultural account of selective reproduction in Vietnam

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Based on years of careful ethnographic fieldwork in Hanoi, Haunting Images offers a frank and compassionate account of the moral quandaries that accompany innovations in biomedical technology. At the center of the book are case studies of thirty pregnant women whose fetuses were labeled ""...

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Main Author: Gammeltoft, Tine (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Berkeley, California ; Los Angeles, California : University of California Press, 2014
Subjects:
Abortion > Moral and ethical aspects > Vietnam.
Abortion > Social aspects > Vietnam.
Culture.
Abortion.
Obstetrics > Surgery.
Ethnology.
Sociology.
Anthropology.
Social sciences.
Surgery, Operative.
Manners and customs.
Culture
Abortion, Induced
Obstetric Surgical Procedures
Anthropology, Cultural
Sociology
Anthropology
Social Sciences
Surgical Procedures, Operative
Anthropology, Education, Sociology and Social Phenomena
Analytical, Diagnostic and Therapeutic Techniques and Equipment
Abortion, Eugenic
Cultural Characteristics
culture note.
sociology.
anthropology.
social sciences.
customs (social concepts)
culture (concept)
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