Overview
- Presents the first book to specifically and comparatively focus on the routinized use of SRTs in the world today
- Represents a broad, international, multifaceted first framing of this contentious field
- Focuses on the actual ways in which SRTs are currently being developed, used and understood by couples, health care workers, doctors as well as regulators
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Table of contents (8 chapters)
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Preventing Disease and Disability
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Selecting Traits
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Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Tine M. Gammeltoft is a professor in the Department of Anthropology, University of Copenhagen, Denmark. Her book, Haunting Images: A Cultural Account of Selective Reproduction in Vietnam, won the Eileen Basker Memorial Prize & AES Senior Book Prize.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Selective Reproduction in the 21st Century
Editors: Ayo Wahlberg, Tine M. Gammeltoft
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-58220-7
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-58219-1Published: 23 August 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-86352-8Published: 12 August 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-58220-7Published: 12 August 2017
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVII, 198
Number of Illustrations: 4 b/w illustrations, 1 illustrations in colour
Topics: Science and Technology Studies, Medical Anthropology, Medical Sociology, Sociology of Culture, Bioethics, Theory of Medicine/Bioethics