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Author:
Blizzard, Deborah.
Title:
Looking within : a sociocultural examination of fetoscopy / Deborah Blizzard.
Publisher:
MIT Press,
Copyright Date:
c2007
Description:
xiv, 253 p. ; 24 cm.
Subject:
Fetoscopy--Social aspects.
Social medicine.
Prenatal diagnosis.
Fetoscopy--psychology.
Sociology, Medical.
Culture.
Fetoscopy--ethics.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (p. [237]-247) and index.
Contents:
Fetoscopy as lived experience : a closer look -- Why fetoscopy? Why now?: an ethnography of a medical technology and the emotions that fuel it -- Fetoscopy in cultural context : fetal politics, reproductive choice, religious experiences, and maternal blame -- How to create a fetoscopy collective : define the risks and find participants -- Fetoscopy and the single fetus : diagnostic embryofetoscopy, bladder obstruction, amniotic band syndrome, and the technological fix -- Ligation and twins : making and choosing twins in high-risk pregnancy -- Loss and success : social networks and constructing an outcome -- Final thoughts on fetoscopy.
Series:
Basic bioethics
ISBN:
0262026163 (hbk. : alk. paper)
9780262026161 (hbk. : alk. paper)
OCLC:
(OCoLC)72774339
LCCN:
2006033361
Locations:
I6OX771 -- Mercy College Library (Des Moines)

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