Blizzard, Deborah.

Looking within a sociocultural examination of fetoscopy / [electronic resource] : Deborah Blizzard. - Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c2007. - xiv, 253 p. - Basic bioethics . - Basic bioethics. .

Includes bibliographical references (p. [237]-247) and index.

Fetoscopy as lived experience : a closer look -- Why fetoscopy? Why now?: an ethnography of a medical technology and the emotions that fuel it -- Fetoscopy in cultural context : fetal politics, reproductive choice, religious experiences, and maternal blame -- How to create a fetoscopy collective : define the risks and find participants -- Fetoscopy and the single fetus : diagnostic embryofetoscopy, bladder obstruction, amniotic band syndrome, and the technological fix -- Ligation and twins : making and choosing twins in high-risk pregnancy -- Loss and success : social networks and constructing an outcome -- Final thoughts on fetoscopy.


Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.





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Fetoscopy--Social aspects.
Social medicine.
Prenatal diagnosis.


Electronic books.

RG628.3.F47 / B57 2007

618.3/2075