Birth Control and Controlling Birth Women-Centered Perspectives

Women most fully experience the consequences of human reproductive technologies. Men who convene to evaluate such technologies discuss Itthem ": the women who must accept, avoid, or even resist these technologies; the women who consume technologies they did not devise; the women who are the obj...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Holmes, Helen B., Hoskins, Betty B. (Author), Gross, Michael (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Totowa, NJ Humana 1980, 1980
Edition:1st ed. 1980
Series:Contemporary Issues in Biomedicine, Ethics, and Society
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Collection: Springer Book Archives -2004 - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • Reproductive Technologies: The Birth of a Women-Centered Analysis
  • Ethics of Contraceptive Development and Deployment
  • Historical Styles of Contraceptive Advocacy
  • Ethical Problems in Government-Funded Contraceptive Research
  • Value Conflicts in Biomedical Research into Future Contraceptives
  • Status of Contraceptive Technology Development
  • Women-Controlled Research
  • Woman-Controlled Birth Control: A Feminist Analysis of Natural Birth Control
  • Response
  • Response
  • Response
  • Contraceptives Discussion
  • Depo-Provera and Sterilization Abuse
  • Depo-Provera and Sterilization Abuse Overview
  • Depo-Provera: Some Ethical Questions about a Controversial Contraceptive
  • The Depo-Provera Weapon
  • Response
  • Sterilization Abuse and Hispanic Women
  • Concluding Remarks
  • Depo-Provera and Sterilization Abuse Discussion
  • Childbirth
  • Childbirth Overview
  • Section 1: Childbirth Technologies
  • Man-Midwifery and the Rise of Technology: The Problem and Proposals for Resolution
  • The Electronic Fetal Monitor in Perinatology
  • Drugs, Birth, and Ethics
  • Benefits and Risks of Electronic Fetal Monitoring
  • Response
  • Ethical Issues in Childbirth Technology
  • Childbirth Technologies Discussion
  • Section 2: Social Control of Childbirth
  • A Report on Birth in Three Cultures
  • Community Alternatives to High Technology Birth
  • Contrasts in the Birthing Place: Hospital and Birth Center
  • Ethical Issues Relating to Childbirth as Experienced by the Birthing Woman and Midwife
  • Midwives in Many Settings
  • A Native American Response
  • An Obstetrician’s Perspective
  • Response
  • Policymaking and Projections
  • Policymaking and Projections Overview
  • Forces Impacting on the Policymaker
  • Response
  • C/SEC: A Special-Interest Interpersonal Group Brings about Change
  • The Ethicist in Policymaking.-Appendix: Action Possibilities, Margaret A. Kohn
  • Notes and References
  • Biographies