Making a Good Life, 9780691167480
Hardcover
Making a Good Life takes a timely look at the ideas and values that inform how people think about reproduction and assisted reproductive technologies. In an era of heightened scrutiny about parenting and reproduction, fears about environmental degradation, and the rise of the biotechnology industry,…

Making a Good Life

An Ethnography of Nature, Ethics, and Reproduction

$375.36

  • Hardcover

    248 pages

  • Release Date

    29 August 2016

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Summary

Making a Good Life takes a timely look at the ideas and values that inform how people think about reproduction and assisted reproductive technologies. In an era of heightened scrutiny about parenting and reproduction, fears about environmental degradation, and the rise of the biotechnology industry, Katharine Dow delves into the reproductive ethics of those who do not have a personal stake in assisted reproductive technologies, but who are building lives inspired and influenced by environm…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780691167480
ISBN-10:0691167486
Author:Katharine Dow
Publisher:Princeton University Press
Imprint:Princeton University Press
Format:Hardcover
Number of Pages:248
Release Date:29 August 2016
Weight:369g
Dimensions:216mm x 140mm
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Critics Review

”[Dow’s] musings about dong anthropological fieldwork in Spey Bay add a layer of brilliant reflexivity to her scholarly account.“–Barbara J. King, Times Literary Supplement

About The Author

Katharine Dow

Katharine Dow is a research associate in the Reproductive Sociology Research Group at the University of Cambridge.

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