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Haunting images

Gammeltoft, Tine,

Haunting images a cultural account of selective reproduction in Vietnam / [electronic resource] : Tine M. Gammeltoft. - Los Angeles, California : University of California Press, 2014. - 1 online resource (pages cm) - UPCC book collections on Project MUSE. .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Prologue: haunting decisions -- Introduction: choice as belonging -- Sonographic imaging and selective reproduction in Hanoi -- A collectivizing biopolitics -- Precarious maternal belonging -- Like a loving mother? moral engagements in medical worlds -- How have we lived? accounting for reproductive misfortune -- Beyond knowledge: everyday encounters with disability -- Questions of conscience -- Conclusion: toward an anthropology of belonging -- Appendix: core cases -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.

9780520958159


Abortion--Social aspects--Vietnam.
Abortion--Moral and ethical aspects--Vietnam.


Electronic books.

HQ767.5.V5 / G36 2014

179.7/609597