The Stork and the Syringe: A Political History of Reproductive Medicine

by Naomi Pfeffer

Book Overview

Reproductive technology is typically discussed in the future tense. Yet doctors have always treated involuntary childlessness. This book looks at the recent history of infertility and the different ways medicine has treated it. It traces the reluctance to allow infertility a past to a new tension that has emerged between utopian and anti-utopian fears about the growth rate and composition of population. The Stork and the Syringe argues that although...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0745611877
• ISBN13: 9780745611877
• Release Date: December 1993
• Publisher: Polity Press
• Length: 250 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"