Abstract
Women have been the bearers of the next generation since human beings first existed. Yet today human reproduction hardly seems to be a natural process—a clutter of biomedical technology surrounds it. Drugs, devices, and instruments besiege us—to block or ease conception; to foster or terminate gestation; to monitor or hasten birth. And recently emerging uses of technology include the design of progeny to meet specifications, as well as the creation of embryos outside the human body.
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- Unnecessary Surgery
- Electronic Fetal Monitor
- Patriarchal Society
- Electronic Fetal Monitoring
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Holmes, H.D. (1980). Reproductive Technologies The Birth of a Women-Centered Analysis. In: Holmes, H.B., Hoskins, B.B., Gross, M. (eds) Birth Control and Controlling Birth. Contemporary Issues in Biomedicine, Ethics, and Society. Humana Press. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-6005-9_1
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