Embodied progress
Subtitle: a cultural account of assisted conception
By: Sarah Franklin.
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 1997
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 252
Subjects: Medical anthropology.; Human reproductive technology.; Fertilization in vitro, Human.; Kinship -- Philosophy.; Social medicine.
Description: New reproductive technologies, such as in vitro fertilisation, have been the subject of intense public discussion and debate worldwide. In addition to difficult ethical, moral, personal and political questions, new techniques of assisted conception also raise novel socio-cultural dilemmas. How are parenthood, kinship and procreation being redefined in the context of new reproductive technologies? Has reproductive choice become part of consumer culture?

Embodied Progress offers a unique perspective on these and other cultural dimensions of assisted conception techniques.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [230]-245) and index.