Technologies of Procreation
Kinship in the Age of Assisted Conception
Published on 27. May 1993
Book
Hardback
256 pages
978-0-7190-3815-0 (ISBN)
Description
An anthropological study of kin relationships - represented in terms of a special connection between social relations and biological relations - and the new reproductive technologies, which explores how the ramifications of the use of human embryos changes the traditional concept of family.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Manchester
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
bibligraphy
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
ISBN-13
978-0-7190-3815-0 (9780719038150)
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Content
Beyond expectation - clinical practice and clinical concern; explicit connections - ethnographic enquiry in northwest England; negotiated limits - interviews in southeast England; making representations - the parliamentary debate on the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act; regulation, substitution and possibility; a relational view.