EAN: 9780262544696

FERTILITY TECHNOLOGY - DONNA J DRUCKER KARTONIE...

A concise overview of fertility technology—its history  practical applications  and ethical and
social implications around the world. In the late 1850s  a physician in New York City used a
syringe and glass tube to inject half a drop of sperm into a woman’s uterus  marking the first
recorded instance of artificial insemination. From that day forward  doctors and scientists
have turned to technology in ever more innovative ways to facilitate conception. Fertility
Technology surveys this history in all its medical  practical  and ethical complexity  and
offers a look at state-of-the-art fertility technology in various social and political contexts
around the world. Donna J. Drucker’s concise and eminently readable account introduces the five
principal types of fertility technologies used in human reproduction—artificial insemination 
ovulation timing  sperm  egg  and embryo freezing  in vitro fertilization  and IVF in uterine
transplants—discussing the development  manufacture  dispersion  and use of each.
Geographically  it focuses on countries where innovations have emerged and countries where
these technologies most profoundly affect individuals and population policies. Drucker’s
wide-ranging perspective reveals how these technologies  used for birth control as well as
conception in many cases  have been critical in shaping the moral  practical  and political
meaning of human life  kinship  and family in different nations and cultures since the
mid-nineteenth century.

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