Haunting Images
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A01=Tine M. Gammeltoft
abnormal
Author_Tine M. Gammeltoft
babies
belonging
biology
biomedical technology
case studies
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children
contemporary vietnam
diagnostic capability
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ethnographic fieldwork
fetus
gender studies
global medicine
hanoi
kinship
love and loss
medical innovations
moral assessments
morality
motherhood
parenthood
political
pregnancy
pregnant women
prenatal screening
prospective parents
questions of belonging
reproductive decision making
technology
ultrasonography
ultrasound examination
vietnam
vietnamese mothers
vietnamese women
Product details
- ISBN 9780520278424
- Weight: 590g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 22 Feb 2014
- Publisher: University of California Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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Based on fieldwork conducted in Hanoi, Haunting Images explores how Vietnamese families handle the difficult decisions presented by new reproductive technologies. At the center of the book are case studies of thirty pregnant women whose fetuses were labeled "abnormal" after an ultrasound examination. By following these women and their relatives through the painful process of reproductive decision-making, Tine M. Gammeltoft offers both intimate ethnographic insights into day-to-day lives in a Southeast Asian country and a sophisticated theoretical exploration of how subjectivities are forged in the face of moral assessments and demands. Across the globe, ultrasonography and other technologies for prenatal screening offer prospective parents new information and present them with agonizing decisions never faced in the past. For anthropologists, this diagnostic capability raises important questions about individuality and collectivity, responsibility and choice. Based on this work in Vietnam, Gammeltoft argues that in order to comprehend how life-and-death decisions are made, anthropologists must pay closer attention to human quests for belonging.
Tine M. Gammeltoft is Professor of Anthropology, University of Copenhagen. She is on the Editorial Advisory Board for the journal Reproductive Health Matters.
