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Haunting images: a cultural account of selective reproduction in Vietnam

2014 The Regents of the University of California ;ISBN: 0520278437 ;ISBN: 0520278429 ;ISBN: 9780520278431 ;ISBN: 9780520278424 ;EISBN: 0520958152 ;EISBN: 9780520958159 ;OCLC: 869735877 ;LCCallNum: HQ767.5.V5

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  • Title:
    Haunting images: a cultural account of selective reproduction in Vietnam
  • Author: Gammeltoft, Tine M
  • Subjects: Abortion ; Abortion-Moral and ethical aspects-Vietnam ; Abortion-Social aspects-Vietnam ; Anthropology ; Choices ; Cultural ; Decisions ; Ethics ; Ethnography ; Females ; Hanoi, Vietnam ; Innovations ; Moral and ethical aspects ; Social aspects ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Technology ; Vietnam
  • Description: 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 subjectivities are forged in the face of moral assessments and demands. Across the globe, ultrasonography and other technologies for prenatal screening offer prospective parents new information and present them with agonizing decisions never faced in the past. For anthropologists, this diagnostic capability raises important questions about individuality and collectivity, responsibility and choice. Arguing for more sustained anthropological attention to human quests for belonging, Haunting Images addresses existential questions of love and loss that concern us all.
  • Publisher: Berkeley: University of California Press
  • Creation Date: 2014
  • Format: 332
  • Language: English
  • Identifier: ISBN: 0520278437
    ISBN: 0520278429
    ISBN: 9780520278431
    ISBN: 9780520278424
    EISBN: 0520958152
    EISBN: 9780520958159
    OCLC: 869735877
    LCCallNum: HQ767.5.V5
  • Source: Ebook Central Academic Complete
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