Living Laboratories.
Imagine an unborn foetus having children. In a world where frozen embryo banks and test-tube babies are presented as the 'norm', the culling of immature eggs from a female foetus is no longer science fiction. How does this affect our concepts of parenting and mothering? What are the ethica...
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Spinifex Press,
2007
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Table of Contents:
- BOOK COVER; TITLE; COPYRIGHT; DEDICATION; CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; INTRODUCTION; REPRODUCTIVE CONSCIOUSNESS: THE LOSS OF INNOCENCE; CHANGING SOCIAL VALUES: COMMODIFICATION AND CONTROL; CRUMBLING MOTHERHOOD: MEN AND THE CONTROL OF REPRODUCTION; PART 1: MOTHERHOOD, MEDICINE AND MEN; 1 IN VITRO FERTILISATION: MAN MAKES THE EMBRYO; 2 THE MASCULINE DREAM OF QUALITY CONTROL: GENETIC ENGINEERING; 3 WOMAN AS A DISSOLVING CAPSULE: THE CHALLENGE OF FETAL PERSONHOOD; 4 THE DEPERSONALISATION OF BIRTH MOTHERS: SO-CALLED 'SURROGACY'; PART 2: SETTING THE CONTEXT FOR REPRODUCTIVE CONTROL.
- 5 THE VALUES OF MEDICAL SCIENCE6 'REPROSPEAK': THE LANGUAGE OF THE NEW REPRODUCTIVE TECHNOLOGIES; 7 MOTHERHOOD AND INFERTILITY: MEDICAL SCIENCE CO-OPTS IDEOLOGY AND DESIRE; 8 RIGHTS, RESPONSIBILITIES AND RESISTANCE; NOTES AND REFERENCES; INDEX.
