Cultural conceptions : on reproductive technologies and the remaking of life /

What happens to prevailing beliefs about the uniqueness of individual life when life can be cloned? Or to traditional understandings of family relationships when a child can have up to five parents? These are some of the questions addressed by Valerie Hartouni in her consideration of the cultural ef...

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Tác giả chính: Hartouni, Valerie
Định dạng: Licensed eBooks
Ngôn ngữ:Tiếng Anh
Được phát hành: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, ©1997.
Truy cập trực tuyến:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5749/j.ctttth3v
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Tóm tắt:What happens to prevailing beliefs about the uniqueness of individual life when life can be cloned? Or to traditional understandings of family relationships when a child can have up to five parents? These are some of the questions addressed by Valerie Hartouni in her consideration of the cultural effects of new reproductive technologies as reflected in video images, popular journalism, scientific debates, legal briefs, and policy decisions. In Cultural Conceptions, Hartouni tracks the circulation and communication of various myths, images, and stories pertaining to new reproductive technologies.
Mô tả vật lý:1 online resource (x, 175 pages) : illustrations
Thư mục:Includes bibliographical references (pages 157-170) and index.
số ISBN:9780816686568
0816686564
9780816626229
0816626227
0816626235
9780816626236