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Title: Haunting Images : A Cultural Account of Selective Reproduction in 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.
Authors: Tine M. Gammeltoft
Resource Type: eBook.
Subjects: Surgery, Operative, Social sciences, Anthropology, Manners and customs, Culture, Abortion--Social aspects--Vietnam, Abortion--Moral and ethical aspects--Vietnam, Abortion, Sociology, Ethnology, Obstetrics--Surgery
Categories: SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gender Studies
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