Week of April 27, 2009
News Item: A few months have passed since a Southern California woman gave birth to eight babies, all of whom were conceived through in vitro fertilization (IVF). What are the social, cultural, political, medical, ethical, and economic ramifications of IVF and other reproductive technologies? Some starting points…
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Babies in Bottles: Twentieth-Century Visions of Reproductive Technology
By Susan Merrill Squier. Rutgers UP, 1994
Call Number: RG133.5 .S98 1994 (At Jupiter)
Beyond Second Opinions: Making Choices about Fertility Treatment
By Judith Steinberg Turiel. U of California Press, 1998
Call Number: RC889 .T87 1998
Bodies of Technology: Women’s Involvement with Reproductive Medicine
Edited by Ann Rudinow Saetnan et al. Ohio State UP, 2000
Call Number: RG133.5 .B625 2000
Body Talk: Rhetoric, Technology, Reproduction
Edited by Mary M. Lay et al. U of Wisconsin Press, 2000
Call Number: RG133.5 .B63 2000
Choosing Assisted Reproduction: Social, Emotional & Ethical Considerations
By Susan Lewis Cooper. Perspectives Press, 1998
Call Number: RG1335.5 .C673 1998 (At Jupiter)
Complex Adoption and Assisted Reproductive Technology: A Developmental Approach to Clinical Practice
By Vivian Shapiro. Guilford Press, 2001
Call Number: HV875 .C657 2001
Cultural Conceptions: On Reproductive Technologies and the Remaking of Life
By Valerie Hartouni. U of Minnesota Press, 1997
Call Number: RG133.5 .H383 1997
The Dream of the Perfect Child
By Joan Rothschild. Indiana UP, 2005
Call Number: RG626 .R68 2005
Everything Conceivable: How Assisted Reproduction is Changing Men, Women, and the World
By Liza Mundy. Alfred A. Knopf, 2007
Call Number: RG133.5 .M86 2007
The Future of Human Reproduction: Ethics, Choice, and Regulation
Edited by John Harris and Soren Holm. Oxford UP, 1998
Call Number: RG133.5 .F93 1998
How Safe is Safe Enough?: Obligations to the Children of Reproductive Technology
By Philip G. Peters. Oxford UP, 2004
Call Number: Available online via NetLibrary
Ideologies and Technologies of Motherhood: Race, Class, Sexuality, Nationalism
Edited by Heléna Ragoné et al. Routledge, 2000
Call Number: HQ759 .I33 2000
Making Babies: Is There a Right to Have Children?
By Mary Warnock. Oxford UP, 2002
Call Number: RG133.5 .W372 2002 (At Treasure Coast)
New Reproductive Technologies, Women’s Health and Autonomy: Freedom or Dependency
By Jyotsna Agnihotri Gupta. Sage, 2000
Call Number: RG133.5 .G864 2000
Pandora’s Box: Feminism Confronts Reproductive Technology
By Nancy Lublin. Rowman & Littlefield, 1998
Call Number: RG133.5 .L83 1998 also available online via NetLibrary
Playing Dolly: Technocultural Formations, Fantasies, and Fictions of Assisted Reproduction
Edited by E. Ann Kaplan, Susan Squier. Rutgers UP, 1999
Call Number: RG133.5 .P62 1999 (At Jupiter)
Prosthetic Bodies: The Construction of the Fetus and the Couple as Patients in Reproductive Technologies
By Irma van der Ploeg. Kluwer, 2001
Call Number: RG133.5 .P635 2001
Reproducing Reproduction: Kinship, Power, and Technological Innovation
Edited by Sarah Franklin and Helena Ragoné. U of Pennsylvania Press, 1998
Call Number: GN482.1 .R46 1998
Stealing Dreams: A Fertility Clinic Scandal
By Mary Dodge. Northeastern UP, 2003
Call Number: RG133.5 .D63 2003
The Wandering Uterus: Politics and the Reproductive Rights of Women
By Cheryl L. Meyer. New York UP, 1997
Call Number: RG133.5 .M48 1997
When Sex Counts: Making Babies and Making Law
By Sherry F. Colb. Rowman & Littlefield, 2007
Call Number: KF3760 .C65 2007