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Assisting Reproduction, Testing Genes: Global Encounters with the New Biotechnologies

Assisting Reproduction, Testing Genes: Global Encounters with the New Biotechnologies

Hardcover

Series: Fertility, Reproduction and Sexuality: Social and Cultural P, Book 18

Medical ReferenceWomen's HealthAnthropology

ISBN10: 1845456254
ISBN13: 9781845456252
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Published: Aug 1 2009
Pages: 304
Weight: 1.27
Height: 0.69 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

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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