Infertility around the Globe
Subtitle: New Thinking on Childlessness, Gender, and Reproductive Technologies
Contributors: Marcia Inhorn (Editor); Frank van Balen (Editor)
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: May 30, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 355
ISBN-13: 9780520231375
Subjects: Gender studies; Infertility & fertilization; Medical anthropology; Social issues; psychology; Psychological aspects; Developing countries; Social Science; Archaeology / Anthropology; Women's Studies - General; Sociology; Anthropology - Cultural; Infertility; Social Science / Anthropology / General; General; Social aspects
First sentence: After decades of scholarly neglect, human reproduction, as a biological phenomenon that is socially constituted and culturally variable through space and time, has slowly gained the attention of social scientists from a variety of disciplines.