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The Palgrave Handbook of Infertility in History

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    Book Overview
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    Chapter 1 Introduction: Infertility in History: Approaches, Contexts and Perspectives
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    Chapter 2 Introduction: Defining the ‘Problem’: Perspectives on Infertility
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    Chapter 3 Great Expectations: Infertility, Disability, and Possibility
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    Chapter 4 Whose Fault is it Anyway? Plant Infertility in Antiquity
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    Chapter 5 From ‘Fructification’ to ‘Insemination’: Nomenclature and the Practice of Artificial Insemination
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    Chapter 6 Silences: Coping with Infertility in Nineteenth-Century Germany
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    Chapter 7 Oral History and Women’s Accounts of Infertility in Postwar England
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    Chapter 8 Introduction: The Body Politic and the Infertile Body
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    Chapter 9 Sterility and Sovereignty: The Succession Crisis of the Late Valois Monarchy
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    Chapter 10 ‘If slendernesse be the cause of unfruitfulnesse; you must nourish and fatten the body’: Thin Bodies and Infertility in Early Modern England
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    Chapter 11 Obstacles to the Establishment of a Policy to Combat Infertility in France, c. 1920–1950
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    Chapter 12 ‘Phantom Fathers’ and ‘Test-Tube Babies’: Debates on Marriage, Infertility, and Artificial Insemination in the British Media, c. 1957–60
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    Chapter 13 ‘She Gets the Taunts and Bears the Blame’: Infertility in Contemporary India
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    Chapter 14 Introduction: Situating Infertility in Medicine
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    Chapter 15 Men’s Responses to Infertility in Late Medieval England
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    Chapter 16 The Ancient Medical Sources in the Chapters about Sterility of Rodrigo de Castro’s De universa mulierum medicina
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    Chapter 17 Female Impotence or Obstruction of the Womb? French Doctors Picturing Female Sterility in the 1820s
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    Chapter 18 ‘The Great Foe to the Reproduction of the Race’: Diagnosing and Treating Infertility Caused by Venereal Diseases, 1880–1914
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    Chapter 19 ‘A Tragedy as Old as History’: Medical Responses to Infertility and Artificial Insemination by Donor in 1950s Britain
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    Chapter 20 Introduction: Agency and Invisibility in Constructions of Infertility
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    Chapter 21 The Psychology of Infertility in Reproductive Medicine and Healthcare, c. 1940s–2000s
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    Chapter 22 The Interplay Between Infertility and Adoption in Policy and Practice in Twentieth-Century Australia
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    Chapter 23 Conditions of Illusion: Agency, Feminism, and Cultural Representations of Infertility in Britain, c. 1960–80
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    Chapter 24 The Janus Face of Infertility in the Global North and South: Reviewing Feminist Contributions to the Debate
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    Chapter 25 Being Paid to Produce Eggs and Sperm: Gender, Commodification, and the Bodily Experiences of Gamete Donors
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    Chapter 26 Representations of Ageing and Infertility in the Twenty-First-Century British Press
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    Chapter 27 Introduction: Reproductive Technologies and Imagined Futures
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    Chapter 28 Americans and Assisted Reproduction: The Past as Prologue
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    Chapter 29 In Vitro Fertilization, Infertility, and the ‘Right to a Child’ in 1970s and 1980s Britain
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    Chapter 30 ‘The Authority’s Anti-Breeding Campaign’: State-Imposed Infertility in British Reprodystopia
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    Chapter 31 Infertility, Ethics, and the Future: An Exploration
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Title
The Palgrave Handbook of Infertility in History
Published by
Palgrave Macmillan UK, January 2017
DOI 10.1057/978-1-137-52080-7
ISBNs
978-1-137-52080-7, 978-1-137-52079-1
Editors

Gayle Davis, Tracey Loughran

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Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 4 13%
Professor > Associate Professor 3 9%
Researcher 3 9%
Lecturer 2 6%
Student > Bachelor 2 6%
Other 5 16%
Unknown 13 41%
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Arts and Humanities 3 9%
Social Sciences 3 9%
Medicine and Dentistry 3 9%
Linguistics 2 6%
Psychology 2 6%
Other 5 16%
Unknown 14 44%