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Birth Control and Controlling Birth: Women-Centered Perspectives

Birth Control and Controlling Birth: Women-Centered Perspectives

Holmes, Helen B.
Hoskins, Betty B.
Gross, Michael

Hardcover

Series: Contemporary Issues in Biomedicine, Ethics, and Society

Medical ReferenceGeneral Sociology

ISBN10: 0896030229
ISBN13: 9780896030220
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published: Jan 31 1981
Pages: 338
Weight: 1.56
Height: 1.31 Width: 6.40 Depth: 9.26
Language: English
Women most fully experience the consequences of human reproductive technologies. Men who convene to evaluate such technologies discuss Itthem the women who must accept, avoid, or even resist these technologies; the women who consume technologies they did not devise; the women who are the objects of policies made by of women is neither sought nor listened to. The men. So often the input and perspectives that women bring to the privileged insights consideration of technologies in human reproduction are the subject of these volumes, which constitute the revised and edited record of a Workshop on Ethical Issues in Human Reproduction Technology: Analysis by W omen (EIR TAW), held in June, 1979, at Hampshire College in Amherst, Massachusetts. Some 80 members of the workshop, 90 percent of them women (from 24 states), represented diverse occupations and personal histories, different races and classes, varied political commitments. They included doctors, nurses, and scientists, lay midwives, consumer advocates, historians, and sociologists, lawyers, policy analysts, and ethicists. Each session, however, made plain that ethics is an everyday concern for women in general, as well as an academic profession for some.

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