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The Elusive Embryo - How Women and Men Approach New Reproductive Technologies (Paperback) Loot Price: R684
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The Elusive Embryo - How Women and Men Approach New Reproductive Technologies (Paperback): Gay Becker

The Elusive Embryo - How Women and Men Approach New Reproductive Technologies (Paperback)

Gay Becker

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"Gay Becker, the leading ethnographer of the infertility experience in the U.S., provides a powerful account of how American women and men think, feel, and talk about their utilization of new reproductive technologies. This book will be required reading for those embarking on the infertility treatment odyssey, as well as for scholars interested in the relationship of gender to technology." --Marcia Inhorn, author of "Infertility and Patriarchy

"This is a very powerful book. It forces the reader to scrutinize his/her own relationships to biology, to parenthood and to normalcy. But Gay Becker's real tour de force goes beyond even this! The deeper accomplishment of her work is that when, in a decade or two, children born through these new reproductive technologies ask the parents why they were born in the first place, they will be able to turn to Becker's book. The answers will be cultural as well as personal, deeply anchored not only in their parents' desires and experiences but also in profound social and technological innovations." --Isabelle Bazanger, author of "Inventing Pain Medicine from the Laboratory to the Clinic

"As a longtime facilitator of infertility support groups, I found The Elusive Embryo to be a fascinating and powerful examination of the cultural forces that shape the experience of being infertile as well as of the relationship between reproductive technologies and the consumers they serve. This is a book that makes you think; it is also one that offers recognition, perspective, and ultimately solace to those undergoing the transforming process of dealing with infertility."--Cecile T. Lampton, M.S.

"What distinguishes this book is its focus on the subjectiveexperience of dealing with infertility and its treatment. The success of Becker's nuanced description of this difficult, emotionally-charged process may be explained by the way in which she brings to bear her own experience of infertility-a masterful exercise in involved detachment." --Simone Bateman, CNS-CERMES

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Imprint: University of California Press
Country of origin: United States
Release date: December 2000
First published: 2010
Authors: Gay Becker
Dimensions: 229 x 152 x 20mm (L x W x T)
Format: Paperback - Trade
Pages: 330
ISBN-13: 978-0-520-22431-5
Categories: Books > Medicine > Clinical & internal medicine > Urology & urogenital medicine
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LSN: 0-520-22431-0
Barcode: 9780520224315

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