Looking Within : A Sociocultural Examination of Fetoscopy.
Title:
Looking Within : A Sociocultural Examination of Fetoscopy.
Author:
Blizzard, Deborah.
ISBN:
9780262268745
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (271 pages)
Series:
Basic Bioethics
Contents:
Series Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Prologue -- 1 Fetoscopy as Lived Experience: A Closer Look -- 2 Why Fetoscopy? Why Now?: An Ethnography of a Medical Technology and the Emotions That Fuel It -- 3 Fetoscopy in Cultural Context: Fetal Politics, Reproductive Choice, Religious Experiences, and Maternal Blame -- 4 How to Create a Fetoscopy Collective: Define the Risks and Find Participants -- 5 Fetoscopy and the Single Fetus: Diagnostic Embryofetoscopy, Bladder Obstruction, Amniotic Band Syndrome, and the Technological Fix -- 6 Ligation and Twins: Making and Choosing Twins in High-Risk Pregnancy -- 7 Loss and Success: Social Networks and Constructing an Outcome -- 8 Final Thoughts on Fetoscopy -- Notes -- References -- Index.
Abstract:
An ethnographic study of fetoscopy that considers both the broader cultural context of this high-risk obstetrical procedure and the patient's individual experience.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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