Infertility: Tracing the History of a Transformative Term

by Robin E Jensen and Robin E. Jensen

This book explores the arguments, appeals, and narratives that have defined the meaning of infertility in the modern history of the United States and Europe. Throughout the last century, the inability of women to conceive children has been explained by discrepant views: that women are individually culpable for their own reproductive health problems, or that they require the intervention of medical experts to correct abnormalities. Using doctor-patient...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0271076208
• ISBN13: 9780271076201
• Release Date: October 2016
• Publisher: Penn State University Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.5" x 8.9"