Making a Good Life: An Ethnography of Nature, Ethics, and Reproduction
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Making a Good Life: An Ethnography of Nature, Ethics, and Reproduction
By (Author) Katharine Dow
Princeton University Press
Princeton University Press
30th August 2016
United States
Classifications
Tertiary Education
Non Fiction
Ethical issues: scientific, technological and medical developments
Sociology: family and relationships
Reproductive medicine
176
Physical Properties
Paperback
248
Width 140mm, Height 216mm
340g
Description
Making a Good Life takes a timely look at the ideas and values that inform how people think about reproduction and assisted reproductive technologies. In an era of heightened scrutiny about parenting and reproduction, fears about environmental degradation, and the rise of the biotechnology industry, Katharine Dow delves into the reproductive ethics
Reviews
"[Dow's] musings about dong anthropological fieldwork in Spey Bay add a layer of brilliant reflexivity to her scholarly account."--Barbara J. King, Times Literary Supplement
Author Bio
Katharine Dow is a research associate in the Reproductive Sociology Research Group at the University of Cambridge.
