Helena Ragone

Surrogate Motherhood: Conception in the Heart.

* Introduction * Surrogate Mother Programs * Surrogate Mothers * Fathers and Adoptive Mothers * Surrogate Motherhood and American Kinship

Changing Human Reproduction: Social Science Perspectives.

Introduction - Meg Stacey et al What is the Social Science Perspective? Social Dimensions of Assisted Reproduction - Meg Stacey From Private Patients to Privatization - Naomi Pfeffer Making Sense of Missed Conceptions - Sarah Franklin Anthropological Perspectives on Unexplained Infertility Having Triplets, Quads or Quins - Frances Price Who Bears the Responsibility? Gamete Donation and the Social Management of Genetic Origins - Erica Haimes The Meaning of Assisted Kinship - Marilyn Strathern Conclusion - Meg Stacey et al

Life and death under high technology medicine

Life and death under high technology medicine, Ian Robinson. Part 1 Understanding life in the context of high technology medicine: the social consequences of advances in the clinical applications of genetics, Martin Bobrow and Elizabeth Manners screening for fetal and genetic disease - some social and psychological consequences, Martin Richards and Jo Green the human genome project - creator of the potentially sick, potentially vulnerable and potentially stigmatised?, Regina Kenen displacing knowledge - the consequences for kinship, Marilyn Strathern. Part 2 Social and ethical issues in managing the use of high technology medicine: ethical and economic aspects of life saving technologies, Bryan Jennett the social consequences of the development of the artificial heart, Thomas Preston biotechnology, profits and patients - how should the law respond?, Michael Freeman a monopsonistic market - or how to buy and sell human organs, tissues and cells ethically, Charles Erin and John Harris. Part 3 The cultural context of choice in relation to high technology medicine: making choices about death, Roger Higgs contests with death - ideologies of nationalism and internationalism in Japan, Margaret Lock what is power? how is decision? the heart has its reasons, Ronald Frankenberg. Part 4 Understanding the social role and development of high technology medicine: the lay understanding of scientific medicine, Michael Calnan and Simon Williams a social role for technology - making the body legible, David Armstrong rehabilitating sick people - high technology medicine and the reconstruction of normal possibilities, Ian Robinson technology, medicine and the psychosocial context - the case of psychoneuroimmunology, Margot Lyon.