书目名称 | Prosthetic Bodies | 副标题 | The Construction of | 编辑 | Irma Ploeg | 视频video | | 概述 | Includes supplementary material: | 图书封面 |  | 描述 | Among the vast literature on contemporary reproductivetechnologies, .Prosthetic Bodies. stands out in its effectivecombination of insights, methods, and theories from the history ofmedicine, constructivist science and technology studies, and feministtheory. The double focus on IVF and related techniques, and fetaltreatment and surgery, enables the identification of debatabletendencies within today‘s reproductive medicine: the translation ofever more medical problems basically unrelated to women‘s ownreproductive health - and, in the case of fetal diagnosis andtreatment, sometimes formerly even unrelated to reproduction as such- into medical indications for invasive, often highlyexperimental interventions in women‘s bodies. The analyses show how,through the operations and workings of reproductive technologiesthemselves, as well as a variety of discursive mechanisms withinscientific language, today‘s recasting of men‘s fertility problems andchildren‘s congenital anomalies as women‘s reproductive problems comesto appear inevitable. The book challenges the ability of traditionalforms of medical ethics and law to adequately identify thisincremental process. .The careful analyses and arg | 出版日期 | Book 2001 | 关键词 | Medical Ethics; diagnosis; ethics; health; morality | 版次 | 1 | doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-9847-7 | isbn_softcover | 978-90-481-5866-9 | isbn_ebook | 978-94-015-9847-7 | copyright | Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2001 |
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