Bodies in glass : genetics, eugenics, embryo ethics /
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| Author / Creator: | Steinberg, Deborah Lynn. |
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| Imprint: | Manchester [England] ; New York : Manchester University Press, distributed exclusively in the USA by St. Martin's Press, 1997. |
| Description: | ix, 224 p. ; 23 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/2621974 |
| Summary: | An imaginative and original reappraisal of reproductive science, Bodies in glass explores the complex cultural landscape and emergent iconographic bodies of in vitro fertilisation (IVF) and medical genetic discourse. Through a compelling deconstruction of medical and legal languages, texts and institutional practices, Deborah Lynn Steinberg traces the convergence of four key logics - authorial, recombinant, embryo-protectionist and eugenic - which, she argues, are embedded in the field of IVF; the textual material processes of erasure and recombination of women's bodies and reproductive 'fitness'. |
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| Physical Description: | ix, 224 p. ; 23 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 198-218) and index. |
| ISBN: | 071904667X 0719046688 |
