Womb Politics: A Short History of the Future of Human Reproduction

This book offers a vision of politics that govern the womb; from antiquity (‘be fertile and replenish the earth’), through the ages (hysterectomy, to extirpate women’s ‘hysteria’), up to the present time (abortion wars; assisted reproduction), and into the future (reprogenetics; the artificial womb)...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Simonstein, Frida
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham Springer International Publishing 2022, 2022
Edition:1st ed. 2022
Series:The International Library of Bioethics
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Collection: Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • Man and Woman He Created
  • Womb Politics in the Bible
  • Demography Wars
  • The Advent of the Pill
  • The Abortion Wars
  • Assisted Reproduction Technologies (ARTs)
  • Is IVF an Ongoing Experiment?
  • Reprogenetics
  • The Artificial Womb (AW)
  • A Survey of Lay People’s Attitudes Toward the Artificial Womb and Ectogenesis in Israel