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Infertility: Tracing the History of a Transformative Term

2016-10-01

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This book explores the arguments, appeals, and narratives that have defined the meaning of infertility in the modern history of the United States and Europe. Throughout the last century, the inability of women to conceive children has been explained by discrepant views: that women are individually culpable for their own reproductive health problems, or that they require the intervention of medical experts to corre...

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Reproductive Health and Technologies

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Literature Corpus work: 88774e68-faec-5dca-9945-62550920c773
DOI: 10.1515/9780271078212

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