UID:
edocfu_9961382303602883
Format:
1 online resource (xix, 301 pages) :
,
illustrations.
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
1-00-308242-4
,
1-000-36463-1
,
1-003-08242-4
,
1-000-36462-3
Series Statement:
Social science perspectives on childbirth and reproduction
Content:
This ground-breaking book challenges us to re-think ourselves as techno-sapiens--a new species we are creating as we continually co-evolve ourselves with our technologies.While some of its chapters are imaginary, they are all empirically grounded in ethnography and richly theorized from diverse disciplines. The authors go far beyond a techno-optimism vs. techno-pessimism stance, stretching our thinking about birthing techno-sapiens to consider not only how our cyborgian reproductive lives are constrained and/or enabled by technology but are also about emotions and spirit. The world of reproductive health care and particularly that of genetic engineering is developing exponentially, and current challenges are vastly different from those of a decade ago. The book is provocative, intended to generate debate, ideas, and future research and to influence ethical policy and practice in human techno-reproduction. It will be of interest across the social sciences and humanities, for reproductive scholars, bioethicists, techno-scientists, and those involved in the development and delivery of maternity services.
Note:
Cover -- Endorsement Page -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- Figures -- Contributors -- About the Editor -- Introduction: Birthing Techno-Sapiens -- Part I From Biocultural Evolution to Human-Technology Co-Evolution -- Chapter 1 Birth and the Big Bad Wolf: Biocultural Evolution and Human Childbirth -- Chapter 2 Egg Freezing Activists: Extending Reproductive Futures to Cancer Patients, Single and Minority Women, and Transgender Men -- Chapter 3 The Speculative Turn in IVF: Egg Freezing, Reproductive Futures, and the Financialization of Fertility -- Chapter 4 Sociology as Technology: A Toolkit for Studying In Vitro Gametogenesis -- Chapter 5 Reproduction, Sacrificial Life, and the Logics of Attrition in the Afterlife of Apartheid -- Chapter 6 Making Better Babies? Past and Future State Fair Contests Evaluating Geneticized Worth -- Chapter 7 Human Germline Genome Editing and Its Tech-Sumptions -- Chapter 8 Evaluating Ectogenesis via the Metaphysics of Pregnancy -- Chapter 9 Elective Cesarean Births in the US and the Global Cesarean Epidemic: Causes, Solutions, and Futuristic Implications -- Chapter 10 Cancerous Contraceptives and the Incubation of Monsters: Quechua Reproductive Etiology and Producing Necro-Techno-Sapiens -- Part II Imagining Techno-Holistic Reproductive Futures -- Chapter 11 Water as a Technology to Support Embodied Autonomous Birthing -- Chapter 12 The Birth of a New Human Being: The Utopian Project of the Late Soviet Waterbirth Movement and Its Inheritors -- Chapter 13 Safety, Co-Regulation, and Polyvagal Theory: The Autonomic Nervous System as the Missing Link in Childbirth Outcomes and Experiences -- Chapter 14 Family-Centered, Evidence-Based, Psycho-Socially Sensitive, and Culturally Respectful Perinatal Care: Still a Futuristic Dream!.
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Chapter 15 Flexible Helpers: Re-Scribing Obstetric Technologies to Generate More Viable Futures for "Good" Pregnancies and Births -- Chapter 16 Coming Home: Re-Visioning Place of Birth in the 21st Century -- Chapter 17 Creating Life in Star Trek: Future Imagineering -- Conclusions: Birthing Techno-Sapiens in Disruptive Times -- Index.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-367-53543-2
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-367-53544-0
Language:
English
DOI:
10.4324/9781003082422
