Monica J Casper

Broschiertes Buch

The Making of the Unborn Patient

A Social Anatomy of Fetal Surgery

Beschreibung

Examines two events in the second half of the 20th century: the emergence of foetal surgery as a medical specialty and the debut of the unborn patient. The author shows how biomedical work has intersected with reproductive politics to generate cultural meanings of foetuses, women and medicine.

Autor

MONICA J. CASPER is an assistant professor of sociology at the University of California, Santa Cruz. She is also affiliated with the Stanford University Center for Biomedical Ethics. The work upon which this book is based won the 1996 dissertation award from the American Sociological Association's Medical Sociology Section. 

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rutgers University Press
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juni 1998
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 228mm x 152mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 454g
• ISBN-13: 9780813525167
• ISBN-10: 0813525160
• Artikelnr.: 22000707