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Transparent Women, Visible Genes, and New Conceptions of Disease
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 29 July 2009
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Technological innovations have transformed our culture's ways of thinking about procreation and pregnancy, and about health and illness. Until not so long ago, the ongoing processes inside women's bodies as they gestated their future babies was up to conjecture. In Western industrialized countries, pregnancy was the slow process during which a woman gradually came to accept the fact that she was sharing her bodily space with another, and that now, as well as after the baby emerged, the primary responsibility for that new person's survival would be hers.
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- Special Section: Designs on Life: Choice, Control, and Responsibility in Genetic Manipulation
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