Name: Haunting Images: A Cultural Account of Selective Reproduction in Vietnam (Philip e. Lilienthal Books) (en Inglés)
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Author: Tine M. Gammeltoft
ISBN: 9780520278431

portada Haunting Images: A Cultural Account of Selective Reproduction in Vietnam (Philip e. Lilienthal Books) (en Inglés)

Formato

Libro Físico

Editorial

University Of California Press

Autor

Tine M. Gammeltoft

Año

2014

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

336

Encuadernación

Tapa Blanda

ISBN13

9780520278431

N° edición

Categorías

Filosofía ética y moral

Haunting Images: A Cultural Account of Selective Reproduction in Vietnam (Philip e. Lilienthal Books) (en Inglés)

Tine M. Gammeltoft (Autor) · University Of California Press · Tapa Blanda

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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.