Playing Dolly: Technocultural Formations, Fantasies and Fictions of Assisted Reproduction (Millenial Shift)

E. Ann Kaplan (Editor), Susan M. Squier (Editor), and E.Ann Kaplan (Editor)

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Reproductive technology spans techniques ranging from cloning, surrogate motherhood, egg donation, and prenatal testing. In the early nineties, when public debate about this topic was new, the discourse focused on the moral and ethical issues that these new technologies evoked. Less than a decade later, the editors in Playing Dolly state, ethical questions seem less urgent. Enormous changes have taken place in the way that reproduction is represented, understood, and discussed.

The pieces, which range from the biomedical to the sociocultural and include even fiction, reflect the shift in public perception of these complex topics. They testify to the increasing acceptance of reproductive technology, and the resulting reduction in concern over the ethical issues raised by technological intervention.

  • ISBN10 0813526485
  • ISBN13 9780813526485
  • Publish Date 1 August 1999
  • Publish Status Out of Print
  • Out of Print 25 June 2013
  • Publish Country US
  • Imprint Rutgers University Press
  • Format Hardcover
  • Pages 256
  • Language English