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Manufacturing Babies and Public Consent: Debating the New Reproductive Technologies Book

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Manufacturing Babies and Public Consent: Debating the New Reproductive Technologies, On Christmas day, 1993, a 59-year-old British woman gave birth to healthy twins. In Italy the very same week, a black woman bore a white baby, produced from the semen of her white husband and an egg donated by a white woman. Heated debates ensued across t, Manufacturing Babies and Public Consent: Debating the New Reproductive Technologies
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  • Manufacturing Babies and Public Consent: Debating the New Reproductive Technologies
  • Written by author Jose Van Dyck, Jose Van Dijck
  • Published by New York University Press, 1995/01/01
  • On Christmas day, 1993, a 59-year-old British woman gave birth to healthy twins. In Italy the very same week, a black woman bore a white baby, produced from the semen of her white husband and an egg donated by a white woman. Heated debates ensued across t
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Introduction: Manufacturing Babies and Public Consent 1
1 Mapping the Public Debate on New Reproductive Technologies 9
A Public Debate as a Field of Struggle 14
Medical Authority and Feminist Criticism 27
2 Reading Science, Journalism and Fiction as Culture 35
Science as Discourse 38
Journalism as Discourse 44
Science in Fiction, Fictions of Science 52
The Role of the Critic in a Public Debate 57
3 Constructing the Need for New Reproductive Technologies 61
The First Test-Tube Baby: 'Gee Whiz! A Miracle!' 62
From Miracle to Cure: Establishing the Need for IVF 69
From Cure to Plague 77
4 Feminist Assessments of New Reproductive Technologies 87
Constructing a Countermyth 90
Rejecting the Countermyth 99
Imagining Reproduction: Feminist Fictions of Science 104
Feminism between Margin and Mainstream 114
5 From Cure to Commodity: The Naturalization of IVF 119
Playing the Odds: The Numbers Game 121
The Natural Construction of Medical Facts 128
Reconsidering Oppositional Strategies 143
6 From Need to Right: The Legalization of Genetic Motherhood 149
Anna Johnson versus the Los Angeles Times 152
The Naturalization of a Legal Definition 166
The Divided Feminist Body 171
7 From Legalization to Legislation: Race and Age as Determining Factors 175
Postmenopausal Pregnancies 178
Transracial Impregnation 184
Nature, Logic and the Public Debate 189
Conclusion 195
Notes 205
Bibliography 227
Index 235


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