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The Captured Womb: A History of the Medical Care of Pregnant Women
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IDENTITY CONSTRUCTION: New Issues, New Directions
TL;DR: The study of identity forms a critical cornerstone within modern sociological thought as discussed by the authors, and identity studies have evolved and grown central to current sociological discourse, and the analysis of virtual identities now competes with research on identities established in the real world.
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Making Parents: The Ontological Choreography of Reproductive Technologies
TL;DR: In this article, Charis Thompson explores the intertwining of biological reproduction with the personal, political, and technological meanings of reproduction, and analyzes the "ontological choreography" at ART clinics using ethnographic data to address questions usually treated in the abstract.
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Strategies for reducing maternal mortality in developing countries: what can we learn from the history of the industrialized West?
TL;DR: Analysis of the conditions under which the industrialized world has reduced maternal mortality over the last 100 years finds reduction in developing countries today is hindered by limited awareness of the magnitude and manageability of the problem, and ill‐informed professionalization strategies focusing on antenatal care and training of traditional birth attendants.
Infertility around the Globe: New Thinking on Childlessness, Gender, and Reproductive Technologies
Marcia C. Inhorn,Frank van Balen +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, van Balen et al. discuss the psychologization of fertility and the role of gender and body politics in fertility in the social sciences, and present a discussion of how to interpret fertility from a social science perspective.
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The technocratic body: American childbirth as cultural expression
TL;DR: This article explores the links between the authors' culture's mythological technocratic model of birth and the body images, individual belief and value systems, and birth choices of forty middle-class women--32 professional women who accept the technocratic paradigm, and eight homebirthers who reject it.