From a historical perspective, selective reproduction is nothing new. Infanticide,
abandonment, and selective neglect of children have a long history, and the widespread …

OBJECTIVES: First to develop a consensus on what is known about men's experiences and
involvement in antenatal screening, second to understand whether screening is an …

Human embryos and foetuses are highly public and contested figures. Their visual images
appear across a wide range of forums. They have become commercial commodities as part …

Embodying Culture is an ethnographically grounded exploration of pregnancy in two
different cultures—Japan and Israel—both of which medicalize pregnancy. Tsipy Ivry …

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A common assumption is that women who decline prenatal testing distrust biomedicine and
trust embodied/experiential knowledge sources, while women who accept testing trust …

Parents of intersex children are perceived in many studies as hopeless, highly dependent
on the medical system, and as gate keepers of normative gendered bodies. In this article, we …

Breast milk expression has been promoted as liberating for women and as offering them
more choices, but there has been little research on women's experiences of it and even less …

This article focuses on examining and understanding the way motherhood and babyhood
are constituted in the midst of cultural practice and particularly though consumption as a …

This article examines a local version of medical public discourse about fetal images
produced through ultrasonography in Israel, where this technology has gained huge …