Reproducing Reproduction: Kinship, Power, and Technological Innovation - Softcover

 
9780812215847: Reproducing Reproduction: Kinship, Power, and Technological Innovation
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ISBN 10: 0812215842 ISBN 13: 9780812215847
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1997

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Focusing on the key themes of power, kinship, and technological innovation, this volume offers a set of carefully argued empirical studies that emphasize the importance of ethnographic method, as well as anthropological theory, to current debates about the reproductive processes of humans, animals, and plants. In chapters on abortion, assisted conception, biodiversity conservation, artificial life sciences, adoption, intellectual property, and prenatal screening, Reproducing Reproduction contends that ideologies of class, nation, health, gender, nature, and kinship have reproductive models at their core.

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Focusing on the key themes of power, kinship, and technological innovation, this volume offers a set of carefully argued studies that emphasize the importance of ethnographic method, as well as anthropological theory, to current debates about the reproductive processes of humans, animals, and plants. Reproducing Reproduction addresses these debates in a range of sites in which reproduction is being redefined and argues persuasively for a renewed appreciation of the centrality of reproductive politics to cultural and historical change. In chapters on abortion, assisted conception, biodiversity conservation, artificial life sciences, adoption, intellectual property, and prenatal screening, Reproducing Reproduction contends that ideologies of class, nation, health, gender, nature, and kinship have reproductive models at their core. Including prize-winning essays by Charis Cussins and Stefan Helmreich, this volume will be of great interest to a wide audience in the social sciences and health technology fields.

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Publisher
University of Pennsylvania Press
Publication date
1997
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0812215842
ISBN 13 
9780812215847
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
264
Editor
Franklin Sarah, Ragoné Helena

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