Prosthetic Bodies
Subtitle: The Construction of the Fetus and the Couple as Patients in Reproductive Technologies
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Springer
Published: December 1, 2001
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 172
ISBN-13: 9781402001161
Subjects: Infertility & fertilization; Science/Mathematics; Medical; Biotechnology (Specific Aspects); Sterility And Fertility; Medical / Nursing; Reproductive technology; Reproductive Medicine & Technology; Ethics; Feminism & Feminist Theory; Medical / Ethics; Medical : Reproductive Medicine & Technology; Social Science / General; Social Science : Feminism & Feminist Theory; Biotechnology; Feminism; Human reproductive technology; Moral and ethical aspects
First sentence: The first step to be taken in loosening the apparently self-evident links between women's wants and needs and the particular answers offered by contemporary technologies concerns addressing the underlying assumption of their biological inevitability.