Contested Reproduction: Genetic Technologies, Religion, and Public Debate
In Contested Reproduction: Genetic Technologies, Religion, and Public Debate, University of California, San Diego, Professor of Sociology, John H. Evans directs the lens of sociology on how religious viewpoints shape discussion about reproductive genetic technologies (RGTs)—for example, using fetal...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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2011
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Sociology of religion
Year: 2011, Volume: 72, Issue: 4, Pages: 491-493 |
| Review of: | Contested reproduction (Chicago [u.a.] : Univ. of Chicago Press, 2010) (Ecklund, Elaine Howard)
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| Summary: | In Contested Reproduction: Genetic Technologies, Religion, and Public Debate, University of California, San Diego, Professor of Sociology, John H. Evans directs the lens of sociology on how religious viewpoints shape discussion about reproductive genetic technologies (RGTs)—for example, using fetal testing through amniocentesis to determine whether a fetus has a deadly or potentially debilitating genetic disorder., This novel effort is important, “because many of the people who inhabit the powerful institutions in the public sphere that mediate between the public and government officials, such as the media, are fairly uninformed about the religious people whom surveys show are the most opposed to RGTs” (6). |
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| ISSN: | 1759-8818 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Sociology of religion
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/socrel/srr057 |