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Author Blizzard, Deborah.

Title Looking within : a sociocultural examination of fetoscopy / Deborah Blizzard.

Publication Info. Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, [2007]
©2007

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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 253 pages).
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series Basic bioethics
Basic bioethics.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-247) and index.
Contents Fetoscopy as lived experience : a closer look -- Why fetoscopy? Why now?: an ethnography of a medical technology and the emotions that fuel it -- Fetoscopy in cultural context : fetal politics, reproductive choice, religious experiences, and maternal blame -- How to create a fetoscopy collective : define the risks and find participants -- Fetoscopy and the single fetus : diagnostic embryofetoscopy, bladder obstruction, amniotic band syndrome, and the technological fix -- Ligation and twins : making and choosing twins in high-risk pregnancy -- Loss and success : social networks and constructing an outcome -- Final thoughts on fetoscopy.
Local Note eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America
Subject Fetoscopy -- Social aspects.
Fetoscopy.
Social aspects.
Social medicine.
Social medicine.
Prenatal diagnosis.
Prenatal diagnosis.
Fetoscopy -- psychology.
Sociology, Medical.
Culture.
Fetoscopy -- ethics.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Blizzard, Deborah. Looking within. Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2007 9780262026161 0262026163 (DLC) 2006033361 (OCoLC)72774339
ISBN 9780262268745 (electronic book)
0262268744 (electronic book)
9781429492409 (electronic book)
1429492406 (electronic book)
9780262026161 (hardback ; alkaline paper)
0262026163 (hardback ; alkaline paper)