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1 online resource |
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polychrome |
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text file |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Contents |
Prologue: haunting decisions -- Introduction: choice as belonging -- Sonographic imaging and selective reproduction in Hanoi -- A collectivizing biopolitics -- Precarious maternal belonging -- Like a loving mother? moral engagements in medical worlds -- How have we lived? accounting for reproductive misfortune -- Beyond knowledge: everyday encounters with disability -- Questions of conscience -- Conclusion: toward an anthropology of belonging -- Appendix: core cases -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index. |
Summary |
Based on years of careful ethnographic fieldwork in Hanoi, Haunting Images offers a frank and compassionate account of the moral quandaries that accompany innovations in biomedical technology. At the center of the book are case studies of thirty pregnant women whose fetuses were labeled ""abnormal"" after an ultrasound examination. By following these women and their relatives through painful processes of reproductive decision making, Tine M. Gammeltoft offers intimate ethnographic insights into everyday life in contemporary Vietnam and a sophisticated theoretical exploration of how subjectivit. |
Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
Subject |
Abortion -- Moral and ethical aspects -- Vietnam.
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Abortion -- Moral and ethical aspects. |
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Vietnam. |
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Abortion -- Social aspects -- Vietnam.
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Abortion -- Social aspects. |
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Abortion. |
Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Other Form: |
Print version: Gammeltoft, Tine, author. Haunting images 9780520278424 (DLC) 2013038507 (OCoLC)861273991 |
ISBN |
9780520958159 (electronic book) |
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0520958152 (electronic book) |
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9781461957461 (electronic book) |
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146195746X (electronic book) |
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9780520278424 |
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0520278429 |
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9780520278431 |
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0520278437 |
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