Infertility : tracing the history of a transformative term / Robin E. Jensen.

By:

Jensen, Robin E, 1979- [author.]

Material type: Text

TextSeries: RSA series in transdisciplinary rhetoricPublisher: University Park, Pennsylvania : The Pennsylvania State University Press, [2016]Copyright date: ©2016Description: 1 online resourceContent type:

text

Media type:

computer

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online resource

ISBN:

9780271078212
0271078219

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Infertility.DDC classification:

618.1/78 23

LOC classification:

RG201 .J46 2016eb

NLM classification:

WP 570

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Contents:

From barren to sterile : the evolution of a mixed metaphor -- Vital forces conserved : narrating energy conservation and human reproduction at the turn of the century -- Improving upon nature : the rise of reproductive endocrinology and chemical theories of fertility -- Psychogenic infertility : the unconscious defense against motherhood -- Fertility in clinical time : the integration of scientific specialties as infertility studies.

Summary: "Analyzes how infertility has been defined in and across technical, mainstream, and lay communities, and how different, emergent conceptualizations of infertility have had implications for individuals and the societies in which they live"--Provided by publisher.

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"Analyzes how infertility has been defined in and across technical, mainstream, and lay communities, and how different, emergent conceptualizations of infertility have had implications for individuals and the societies in which they live"--Provided by publisher.