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Looking within : a sociocultural examination of fetoscopy

Title
Looking within : a sociocultural examination of fetoscopy / Deborah Blizzard.
Author
Blizzard, Deborah.
Publication
Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c2007.

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Description
xiv, 253 p.; 24 cm.
Series Statement
Basic bioethics
Subject
  • Fetoscopy > Social aspects
  • Social medicine
  • Prenatal diagnosis
Bibliography (note)
  • 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.
Call Number
JFE 07-6681
ISBN
  • 9780262026161 (hbk. : alk. paper)
  • 0262026163 (hbk. : alk. paper)
LCCN
2006033361
OCLC
72774339
Author
Blizzard, Deborah.
Title
Looking within : a sociocultural examination of fetoscopy / Deborah Blizzard.
Imprint
Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c2007.
Series
Basic bioethics
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. [237]-247) and index.
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JFE 07-6681
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