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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Published in:Sociology of religion
Main Author: Ecklund, Elaine Howard (Author)
Format: Electronic Review
Language:English
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Published: Oxford Univ. Press 2011
In: Sociology of religion
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).
ISSN:1759-8818
Contains:Enthalten in: Sociology of religion
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1093/socrel/srr057