Prosthetic Bodies

The Construction of the Fetus and the Couple as Patients in Reproductive Technologies
2001
ISBN: 978-90-481-5866-9
Verlag: Springer Netherlands

Buch, Englisch, 172 Seiten, Previously published in hardcover, Format (B × H): 170 mm x 244 mm, Gewicht: 329 g

Among the vast literature on contemporary reproductive technologies, stands out in its effective combination of insights, methods, and theories from the history of medicine, constructivist science and technology studies, and feminist theory. The double focus on IVF and related techniques, and fetal treatment and surgery, enables the identification of debatable tendencies within today's reproductive medicine: the translation of ever more medical problems basically unrelated to women's own reproductive health - and, in the case of fetal diagnosis and treatment, sometimes formerly even unrelated to reproduction as such - into medical indications for invasive, often highly experimental interventions in women's bodies. The analyses show how, through the operations and workings of reproductive technologies themselves, as well as a variety of discursive mechanisms within scientific language, today's recasting of men's fertility problems and children's congenital anomalies as women's reproductive problems comes to appear inevitable. The book challenges the ability of traditional forms of medical ethics and law to adequately identify this incremental process.
The careful analyses and arguments in will be relevant to students of science and technology, gender studies, philosophy, medical ethics, and law, and others interested in the cultural, ethical, and political ramifications of contemporary reproductive technologies.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Ploeg, I. van der

Fachgebiete

• Technische Wissenschaften Technik Allgemein Technologie: Soziale & Ethische Aspekte
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Angewandte Ethik & Soziale Verantwortung Wissenschaftsethik, Technikethik
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Vorklinische Medizin: Grundlagenfächer Reproduktionsmedizin
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Angewandte Ethik & Soziale Verantwortung Medizinische Ethik
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizin, Gesundheitswesen Medizinische Ethik
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Ethik, Moralphilosophie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

The Paradox of Reproductive Technologies.- 1. Preliminary Movements: The Body of Theories, Practices, and Texts.- 2: The Making of the New Patients.- 3 Treatments for Men and Children.- 4 Elusive Body Boundaries and Individuality.- 5 “Only Angels Can Do Without Skin.” A Note on the Politics of Theorizing the Body.- Notes.- References.