Looking within
Subtitle: a sociocultural examination of fetoscopy
By: by Deborah Blizzard.
Series: Basic bioethics
Publisher: MIT Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Cambridge, MA
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780262026161
Subjects: Fetoscopy -- Social aspects.; Social medicine.; Prenatal diagnosis.; Fetoscopy -- psychology.; Sociology, Medical.; Culture.; Fetoscopy -- ethics.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: Fetoscopy as lived experience : a closer look; Why fetoscopy? Why now?: an ethnography of a medical technology and the emotions that fuel it; Fetoscopy in cultural context : fetal politics, reproductive choice, religious experiences, and maternal blame; How to create a fetoscopy collective : define the risks and find participants; Fetoscopy and the single fetus : diagnostic embryofetoscopy, bladder obstruction, amniotic band syndrome, and the technological fix; Ligation and twins : making and choosing twins in high-risk pregnancy; Loss and success : social networks and constructing an outcome; Final thoughts on fetoscopy.