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As a resource for librarians and other buyers of high-level books, SciTech Book News, published quarterly, cites about 2000 new books from several hundred publishers in each issue, offering concise reviews and annotations and thorough bibliographic information. The bibliography itself is arranged by subject, but this page and the other publisher pages present the material arranged by publisher.

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Assisting reproduction, testing genes; global encounters with new biotechnologies.

Ed. by Daphna Birenbaum-Carmeli and Marcia C. Inhorn. (Fertility, reproduction and sexuality; v.18)

978-1-84545-625-2

Birenbaum-Carmeli (medical anthropology, U. of Haifa, Israel) and Inhorn (anthropology and international affairs, Yale U., US) present ten papers exploring the practice of assisted reproductive technologies such as in vitro fertilization outside of the Euro-American setting, with a focus on cultural significance and political impact. Topics include cultural meanings of assisted reproductive technologies among Bulgarian women; female alliances and familial egg donation in Ecuador; Middle Eastern masculinities and assisted reproductive technologies; laws, ethics, and donor technologies in Shia Iran; the ban on surrogacy with in vitro fertilization and the limits of state renovation in contemporary Vietnam; contested surrogacy and the gender order in Israel; practices of preimplantation genetic diagnosis in Argentina; and the moral economy of embryonic stem cells in India. (Annotation ©2009 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)

Reconceiving the second sex; men, masculinity, and reproduction.

Ed. by Marcia C. Inhorn et al. (Fertility, reproduction and sexuality; v.12)

978-1-84545-472-2

Little social science research has been published regarding men's reproductive concerns or contributions to women's reproductive help. This volume argues that the marginalization of men in reproductive research is a serious omission, and examines men's thoughts experiences and feelings about their reproductive lives from a cross-cultural, global perspective. Contributors deal with topics from masculinity and sexuality to childbirth and fatherhood, and consider married and unmarried men, both heterosexual and homosexual. (Annotation ©2009 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)