Reproductive Technologies: Gender, Motherhood and Medicine

by Michelle Stanworth

The creation of test-tube babies acted as a spur to public debate about the implications of research on embryos, in vitro fertilization, surrogate motherhood, and the whole range of technologies concerned with human reproduction. The scope of reproductive technologies examined in this volume - from techniques for the medical management of childbirth, to genetic engineering - is such that few women in the western world, and smaller and smaller numbers...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0745602096
• ISBN13: 9780745602097
• Release Date: January 1991
• Publisher: Polity Press
• Length: 220 Pages
• Weight: 0.83 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.9" x 9.1"