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On Having an Own Child: Reproductive Technologies and the Cultural Construction of Childhood

On Having an Own Child: Reproductive Technologies and the Cultural Construction of Childhood

Karin Lesnik-Oberstein

2019

Genres: Psychology

How are ideas of genetics, 'blood', the family, and relatedness created and consumed? This is the first book ever to consider in depth why people want children, and specifically why people want children produced by reproductive technologies (such as IVF, ICSI etc). As the book demonstrates, even books ostensibly devoted to the topic of why people w

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