Carol Komaromy

Understanding Reproductive Loss

Perspectives on Life, Death and Fertility

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The study of human reproduction has focused on reproductive 'success' and on the struggle to achieve this, rather than on the much more common experience of 'failure', or reproductive loss. Drawing on the latest research from The UK and Europe, The United States, Australia and Africa, this volume examines the experience of reproductive loss in its widest sense to include termination of pregnancy, miscarriage, stillbirth, perinatal and infant death, as well as - more broadly - the loss of desired normative experiences such as that associated with infertility, assisted reproduction and the medicalisation of 'high risk' pregnancy and birth. Ex… Mehr

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Produktdetails

Weitere Autoren: Earle, Sarah (Hrsg.)

ISBN: 978-1-317-00469-1
EAN: 9781317004691
Produktnummer: 20171358
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2016
Seitenangabe: 238 S.
Plattform: PDF
Masse: 2'757 KB

Über den Autor

Sarah Earle is Associate Dean of Research in the Faculty of Health and Social Care at The Open University, UK; Carol Komaromy is Senior Lecturer in Health and Social Care at The Open University, UK and Linda Layne is Hale Professor of Humanities and Social Studies at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA.