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Kin Gene Community
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Author : Daphna Birenbaum-Carmeli
language : en
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Release Date : 2010
Kin Gene Community written by Daphna Birenbaum-Carmeli and has been published by Berghahn Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010 with Human reproductive technology categories.
Jewish Israeli environment. --Book Jacket.
Kin Gene Community
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Author : Daphna Birenbaum-Carmeli
language : en
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Release Date : 2010-07-30
Kin Gene Community written by Daphna Birenbaum-Carmeli and has been published by Berghahn Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-07-30 with Social Science categories.
Israel is the only country in the world that offers free fertility treatments to nearly any woman who requires medical assistance. It also has the world's highest per capita usage of in-vitro fertilization. Examining state policies and the application of reproductive technologies among Jewish Israelis, this volume explores the role of tradition and politics in the construction of families within local Jewish populations. The contributors-anthropologists, bioethicists, jurists, physicians and biologists-highlight the complexities surrounding these treatments and show how biological relatedness is being construed as a technology of power; how genetics is woven into the production of identities; how reproductive technologies enhance the policing of boundaries. Donor insemination, IVF and surrogacy, as well as abortion, pre-implantation genetic diagnosis and human embryonic stem cell research, are explored within local and global contexts to convey an informed perspective on the wider Jewish Israeli environment.
Reproductive Disruptions
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Author : Marcia C. Inhorn
language : en
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Release Date : 2007
Reproductive Disruptions written by Marcia C. Inhorn and has been published by Berghahn Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with Medical categories.
Based on research by leading medical anthropologists from around the world, this book examines such issues as local practices detrimental to safe pregnancy and birth; conflicting reproductive goals between women and men; and miscommunications between pregnant women and their genetic counselors.
Abortion In Asia
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Author : Andrea M. Whittaker
language : en
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Release Date : 2010
Abortion In Asia written by Andrea M. Whittaker and has been published by Berghahn Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010 with Abortion categories.
Based on extensive original field research, this provocative collection presents case studies from Thailand, Cambodia, Burma, Vietnam, Bangladesh, Indonesia and India. It includes an insight into the conditions and hard choices faced by women and the circumstances surrounding unplanned pregnancies.
Making Bodies Kosher
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Author : Ben Kasstan
language : en
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Release Date : 2019-06-01
Making Bodies Kosher written by Ben Kasstan and has been published by Berghahn Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-06-01 with Social Science categories.
For Haredi Jews, reproduction is entangled with issues of health, bodily governance and identity. This is an analysis of the ways in which Haredi Jews negotiate healthcare services using theoretical perspectives in political philosophy. This is the first archival and ethnographic study of Haredi Jews in the UK and sits at the intersection of medical anthropology, social history and Jewish studies. It will allow readers to understand how reproductive care issues affect this growing minority population.
Assisting Reproduction Testing Genes
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Author : Daphna Birenbaum-Carmeli
language : en
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Release Date : 2009
Assisting Reproduction Testing Genes written by Daphna Birenbaum-Carmeli and has been published by Berghahn Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009 with Social Science categories.
Following the routinization of assisted reproduction in the industrialized world, technologies such as in vitro fertilization, preimplantation genetic diagnosis, and DNA-based paternity testing have traveled globally and are now being offered to couples in numerous non-Western countries. This volume explores the application and impact of these advanced reproductive and genetic technologies in societies across the globe. By highlighting both the cross-cultural similarities and diverse meanings that technologies may assume as they enter multiple contexts, the book aims to foster understanding of both the technologies and the settings. Enhanced by cross-cultural perspectives, the book addresses the challenges that globalization presents to local understandings of science, technology, and medicine.
The Selfish Gene
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Author : Richard Dawkins
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Release Date : 1989
The Selfish Gene written by Richard Dawkins and has been published by Oxford University Press, USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1989 with Medical categories.
Science need not be dull and bogged down by jargon, as Richard Dawkins proves in this entertaining look at evolution. The themes he takes up are the concepts of altruistic and selfish behaviour; the genetical definition of selfish interest; the evolution of aggressive behaviour; kinshiptheory; sex ratio theory; reciprocal altruism; deceit; and the natural selection of sex differences. 'Should be read, can be read by almost anyone. It describes with great skill a new face of the theory of evolution.' W.D. Hamilton, Science
Community Genetics And Genetic Alliances
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Author : Aviad E. Raz
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2009-09-10
Community Genetics And Genetic Alliances written by Aviad E. Raz and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-09-10 with Medical categories.
Carrier testing of adults provides information about the risk of passing a genetic mutation to your children, leading to reproductive (and some say, eugenic) decisions. Excessive carrier screening may have adverse effects, but it can also prevent suffering and open up new reproductive options. Raz's study focuses on the interplay of community genetics (the medical organisation of carrier screening) and genetic alliances (networks of individuals at risk), exploring how 'genetic communities' are emerging both within existing ethnic groups and around patients' organizations. While the interplay between carrier testing, reproduction and eugenics has sparked many discussions, this study provides a novel and much-needed perspective on its actual implementation and interpretation by community members. Conflating a cross-cultural spectrum of genetic communities, the benefits and perils of supporting (or restricting) carrier screening are located within broader social issues such as religion, ethnicity, multi-culturalism, abortion, stigmatization, suffering and care-giving. While carrier screening emerges as ultimately a morally justified pronatalist endeavour for the reduction of suffering, thus being different in principle from the 'old' eugenics, it can also carry unintended adverse consequences if left unattended to consumers, communities, or health professionals.
New Reproductive Technologies
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Author : Maureen McNeil
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 1990-04-12
New Reproductive Technologies written by Maureen McNeil and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1990-04-12 with Social Science categories.
This collection of essays provides an overview of the social developments associated with the new reproductive technologies. It assesses the significance of these new technologies for the field of the sociology of technology as a whole.
Living Translation
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Author : Sonya Pritzker
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2014
Living Translation written by Sonya Pritzker and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014 with Medical categories.
Integrating theoretical perspectives with carefully grounded ethnographic analyses of everyday interaction and experience, Living Translation examines the worlds of international translators as well as U.S. teachers and students of Chinese medicine, focusing on the transformations that occur as participants engage in a "search for resonance" with foreign terms and concepts. Based on a close examination of heated international debates as well as specific texts, classroom discussions, and interviews with publishers, authors, teachers, and students, Sonya Pritzker demonstrates the "living translation" of Chinese medicine as a process unfolding through interaction, inscription, embodied experience, and clinical practice. By documenting the stream of conversations that together constitute this process, the book thus traces the translation of Chinese medicine from text to practice with an eye towards the social, political, historical, moral, and even personal dimensions involved in the transnational production of knowledge about health, illness, and the body. Sonya Pritzker is Assistant Researcher at the UCLA Center for East-West Medicine at the UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine and Lecturer in the UCLA Department of Anthropology. She is also on the faculty of the doctoral program at Pacific College of Oriental Medicine in San Diego.