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Pregnancy in a High-Tech Age - Paradoxes of Choice (Hardcover) Loot Price: R3,082
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Pregnancy in a High-Tech Age - Paradoxes of Choice (Hardcover): Robin Gregg

Pregnancy in a High-Tech Age - Paradoxes of Choice (Hardcover)

Robin Gregg

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Too often, in the debate over reproductive rights and technologies, we lose sight of the fundamental emotional and psychological issues that define the experience of pregnancy. Robin Gregg here draws on the words and stories of over thirty women to provide a first- hand perspective on pregnancy in the modern age.

In an age where a new advance in reproductive technology occurs seemingly every month, pregnancy has come to be defined by such medical procedures as prenatal screening, amniocentesis, fetal monitoring, induced labor, and cesarean sections. Public policymakers, ethicists, religious figures, and the medical establishment control the debate, drowning out the voices of women who grapple in the most immediate sense with the issues. Even feminist theorists often overlook the nuances and paradoxes of the reproductive revolution as experienced by individual, particular women.

The reader follows these thirty women as they speak about whether to become pregnant, and by what means; how to choose a health provider; what meaning they attribute to their pregnancies; and how they navigate their way through the contradictory pressures they face during pregnancy. The intimate nature of Gregg's research, consisting as it does largely of women's pregnancy narratives, lends her book a vibrancy often lacking in academic writing about reproduction.

General

Imprint: New York University Press
Country of origin: United States
Release date: April 1995
Authors: Robin Gregg
Dimensions: 229 x 152 x 16mm (L x W x T)
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 220
ISBN-13: 978-0-8147-3067-6
Categories: Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social institutions > Birth
Books > Medicine > Clinical & internal medicine > Gynaecology & obstetrics > General
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LSN: 0-8147-3067-1
Barcode: 9780814730676

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