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Binding: HardcoverDewey Decimal Number: 612.6 EAN: 9781845454067 ISBN: 1845454065 Label: Berghahn Books Manufacturer: Berghahn Books Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 239 Publication Date: September 15, 2007 Publisher: Berghahn Books Studio: Berghahn Books Alternate Versions: Click to Display Browse for similar items by category: Click to Display Editorial Review: Product Description: Reproductive disruptions, such as infertility, pregnancy loss, adoption, and childhood disability, are among the most distressing experiences in people's lives. Based on research by leading medical anthropologists from around the world, this book examines such issues as local practices detrimental to safe pregnancy and birth; conflicting reproductive goals between women and men; miscommunications between pregnant women and their genetic counselors; cultural anxieties over gamete donation and adoption; the contested meanings of abortion; cultural critiques of hormone replacement therapy; and the globalization of new pharmaceutical and assisted reproductive technologies. This breadth - with its explicit move from the "local" to the "global," from the realm of everyday reproductive practice to international programs and policies - illuminates most effectively the workings of power, the tensions between women's and men's reproductive agency, and various cultural and structural inequalities in reproductive health. 
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