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OverviewMaking a Good Life takes a timely look at the ideas and values that inform how people think about reproduction and assisted reproductive technologies. In an era of heightened scrutiny about parenting and reproduction, fears about environmental degradation, and the rise of the biotechnology industry, Katharine Dow delves into the reproductive ethics of those who do not have a personal stake in assisted reproductive technologies, but who are building lives inspired and influenced by environmentalism and concerns about the natural world's future. Moving away from experiences of infertility treatments tied to the clinic and laboratory, Dow instead explores reproduction and assisted reproductive technologies as topics of public concern and debate, and she examines how people living in a coastal village in rural Scotland make ethical decisions and judgments about these matters. In particular, Dow engages with people's ideas about nature and naturalness, and how these relate to views about parenting and building stable environments for future generations.Taking into account the ways daily responsibilities and commitments are balanced with moral values, Dow suggests there is still much to uncover about reproductive ethics. Analyzing how ideas about reproduction intersect with wider ethical struggles, Making a Good Life offers a new approach to researching, thinking, and writing about nature, ethics, and reproduction. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Katharine DowPublisher: Princeton University Press Imprint: Princeton University Press Dimensions: Width: 14.00cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 21.60cm Weight: 0.369kg ISBN: 9780691167480ISBN 10: 0691167486 Pages: 248 Publication Date: 21 June 2016 Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Tertiary & Higher Education , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Temporarily unavailable  The supplier advises that this item is temporarily unavailable. It will be ordered for you and placed on backorder. Once it does come back in stock, we will ship it out to you. Language: English Table of ContentsAcknowledgements ix Prologue: The Sperm Whale's Teeth 1 Introduction: Life in a Nature Reserve 7 // Where the River Meets the Sea 50 1 Ethical Labour 55 // Beginnings 81 2 Future Generations 83 // The Water of Life 103 3 Origin Stories 107 // Arrivals 129 4 Ties That Bind 134 // The Sperm Whale's Teeth Revisited 161 5 Money Talks 164 // You've Been Trumped! 184 6 A Stable Environment 187 Notes 201 Bibliography 217 Index 229Reviews[Dow's] musings about dong anthropological fieldwork in Spey Bay add a layer of brilliant reflexivity to her scholarly account. --Barbara J. King, Times Literary Supplement """[Dow's] musings about dong anthropological fieldwork in Spey Bay add a layer of brilliant reflexivity to her scholarly account.""--Barbara J. King, Times Literary Supplement" Author InformationKatharine Dow is a research associate in the Reproductive Sociology Research Group at the University of Cambridge. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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