Games of life : Czech reproductive biomedicine : sociological perspectives / Iva Šmídová, Eva Šlesingerová, Lenka Slepičková.

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Šmídová, Iva, 1973- [author.]

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Material type: Text

TextLanguage: English Original language: Czech Publisher: Brno : Masaryk University Press, 2015Description: 1 online resource (164 pages)Content type:

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

9788021077348
8021077344

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: No titleDDC classification:

362.1082 23

LOC classification:

RA564.85

NLM classification:

2016 C-051
WQ 200 GC75

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Summary: Games of Life analyses current reproductive medicine in the Czech Republic. It targets biomedicine as a concrete manifestation of modern society's normalization of Western approach to human health and illness by focusing on three specific fields: childbirth, assisted reproduction, and embryo manipulation. The objective of the book is to provide a critical sociological analysis of reproductive medicine as one of the key poles in the current form of biopower. It elaborates on the questions how the borders are negotiated between normality/legitimacy in the definitions of health and illness within the three specialized fields of reproductive medicine, how trust is established within the system of modern reproductive medicine, and how intersectionality, particularly status and gender, enters into this process.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Games of Life analyses current reproductive medicine in the Czech Republic. It targets biomedicine as a concrete manifestation of modern society's normalization of Western approach to human health and illness by focusing on three specific fields: childbirth, assisted reproduction, and embryo manipulation. The objective of the book is to provide a critical sociological analysis of reproductive medicine as one of the key poles in the current form of biopower. It elaborates on the questions how the borders are negotiated between normality/legitimacy in the definitions of health and illness within the three specialized fields of reproductive medicine, how trust is established within the system of modern reproductive medicine, and how intersectionality, particularly status and gender, enters into this process.

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