Problems of Conception: Issues of Law, Biotechnology, Individuals and Kinship

Melhuus, Marit

 
9780857455024: Problems of Conception: Issues of Law, Biotechnology, Individuals and Kinship
ISBN 10: 0857455028 ISBN 13: 9780857455024
Casa editrice: Berghahn Books, 2012

Sinossi

The Biotechnology Act in Norway, one of the most restrictive in Europe, forbids egg donation and surrogacy and has rescinded the anonymity clause with respect to donor insemination. Thus, it limits people’s choice as to how they can procreate within the boundaries of the nation state. The author pursues this significant datum ethnographically and addresses the issues surrounding contemporary biopolitics in Norway. This involves investigating such fundamental questions as the relation between individual and society, meanings of kinship and relatedness, the moral status of the embryo and the role of science, religion and ethics in state policies. Even though the book takes reproductive technologies as its focus, it reveals much about vital processes that are central to contemporary Norwegian society.

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Marit Melhuus is Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Oslo. She has previously worked in Argentina and Mexico, focusing on issues of development, economic anthropology, gender and morality.



Marit Melhuus is Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Oslo. She has previously worked in Argentina and Mexico, focusing on issues of development, economic anthropology, gender and morality.

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Editore
Berghahn Books
Data di pubblicazione
2012
Lingua
Inglese
ISBN 10 
0857455028
ISBN 13 
9780857455024
Rilegatura
Rilegatura all'americana
Numero di pagine
186
Contatto del produttore
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Persona responsabile
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