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Looking Within: A Sociocultural Examination of Fetoscopy (Basic Bioethics) by Assistant Professor Deborah Blizzard is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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In Looking Within, Deborah Blizzard examines the high-risk in utero surgery known as fetoscopy, considering it as both cutting-edge medical technology and as a sociocultural construction of patients, their social networks, and medical providers. She looks at the way individual experiences shape these procedures and how fetoscopy affects individuals (both patients and providers) on a personal, emotional level. Based on an eleven-month ethnographic study of the fetoscopy practice at a community-based hospital and further interviews with former patients, Looking Within offers a vivid picture of the sometimes conflicted, often desperate, and always emotional lives of those undergoing fetoscopy, and challenges current assumptions about normal and appropriate pregnancy experiences. To convey the complex reality of fetoscopy, Blizzard draws from the experiences of the real patients she interviewed for the book to present the fictional case of Melinda and Joe, taking them through the entir

Who reads Looking Within: A Sociocultural Examination of Fetoscopy (Basic Bioethics)?

Author

Assistant Professor Deborah Blizzard

Publisher

The MIT Press; MIT Press (MA); MIT Press

Published

2007

Language

EN

ISBN

9780262026161

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Science, Chemistry, Medical