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This book explores how conditions for childbearing are changing in the 21st century under the impact of new biomedical technologies. Selective reproductive technologies (SRTs) - technologies that aim to prevent or promote the birth of particular kinds of children – are increasingly widespread across the globe. Wahlberg and Gammeltoft bring together a collection of essays providing unique ethnographic insights on how SRTs are made available wit...

What begins as an investigation of contraceptive side effects becomes an inquiry into the daily lives of rural women, an examination of moral ideologies by which women's lives are circumscribed and an exploration of the ways women themselves manage and negotiate the moral demands and social relations which constitute their daily lives.

This book explores how conditions for childbearing are changing in the 21st century under the impact of new biomedical technologies. Selective reproductive technologies (SRTs) - technologies that aim to prevent or promote the birth of particular kinds of children – are increasingly widespread across the globe. Wahlberg and Gammeltoft bring together a collection of essays providing unique ethnographic insights on how SRTs are made available wit...

"This deeply moving and path-breaking ethnography takes us to the social crossroads of global medicine in post-war Vietnam. Here struggles over belonging and value are part and parcel of haunting histories of loss and become the very fabric of visceral conceptual work.” —João Biehl, author of Vita: Life in a Zone of Social Abandonment "In this beautifully crafted ethnography of intense pregnancy sonograms, Tine Gammeltoft reveals screen fet...

"This deeply moving and path-breaking ethnography takes us to the social crossroads of global medicine in post-war Vietnam. Here struggles over belonging and value are part and parcel of haunting histories of loss and become the very fabric of visceral conceptual work.” —João Biehl, author of Vita: Life in a Zone of Social Abandonment "In this beautifully crafted ethnography of intense pregnancy sonograms, Tine Gammeltoft reveals screen fet...