Fertility Technology (The MIT Press Essential Knowledge series) - Softcover

Buch 90 von 114: MIT Press Essential Knowledge

Drucker, Donna J.

 
9780262544696: Fertility Technology (The MIT Press Essential Knowledge series)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0262544695 ISBN 13: 9780262544696
Verlag: The MIT Press, 2023

Inhaltsangabe

A concise overview of fertility technology—its history, practical applications, and ethical and social implications around the world.

In the late 1850s, a physician in New York City used a syringe and glass tube to inject half a drop of sperm into a woman’s uterus, marking the first recorded instance of artificial insemination. From that day forward, doctors and scientists have turned to technology in ever more innovative ways to facilitate conception. Fertility Technology surveys this history in all its medical, practical, and ethical complexity, and offers a look at state-of-the-art fertility technology in various social and political contexts around the world.
 
Donna J. Drucker’s concise and eminently readable account introduces the five principal types of fertility technologies used in human reproduction—artificial insemination; ovulation timing; sperm, egg, and embryo freezing; in vitro fertilization; and IVF in uterine transplants—discussing the development, manufacture, dispersion, and use of each. Geographically, it focuses on countries where innovations have emerged and countries where these technologies most profoundly affect individuals and population policies. Drucker’s wide-ranging perspective reveals how these technologies, used for birth control as well as conception in many cases, have been critical in shaping the moral, practical, and political meaning of human life, kinship, and family in different nations and cultures since the mid-nineteenth century.

Die Inhaltsangabe kann sich auf eine andere Ausgabe dieses Titels beziehen.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Donna J. Drucker is Assistant Director of Scholarship and Research Development at the Columbia University School of Nursing. She is the author of Contraception (MIT Press), The Classification of Sex, and The Machines of Sex Research.

„Über diesen Titel“ kann sich auf eine andere Ausgabe dieses Titels beziehen.

Verlag
The MIT Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2023
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0262544695
ISBN 13 
9780262544696
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
256
Kontakt zum Hersteller
Nicht verfügbar
Verantwortliche Person
Easy Access System Europe
gpsr.requests@easproject.com

51 Hatton Garden
London
EC1N 8HN
Vereinigtes Königreich