Book ID: CBB633313696

Reproduction: Antiquity to the Present Day (2018)

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Hopwood, Nick (Editor)
Flemming, Rebecca (Editor)
Kassell, Lauren (Editor)


Cambridge University Press


Publication Date: 2018
Physical Details: 730
Language: English

From contraception to cloning and pregnancy to populations, reproduction presents urgent challenges today. This field-defining history synthesizes a vast amount of scholarship to take the long view. Spanning from antiquity to the present day, the book focuses on the Mediterranean, western Europe, North America and their empires. It combines history of science, technology and medicine with social, cultural and demographic accounts. Ranging from the most intimate experiences to planetary policy, it tells new stories and revises received ideas. An international team of scholars asks how modern 'reproduction' - an abstract process of perpetuating living organisms - replaced the old 'generation' - the active making of humans and beasts, plants and even minerals. Striking illustrations invite readers to explore artefacts, from an ancient Egyptian fertility figurine to the announcement of the first test-tube baby. Authoritative and accessible, Reproduction offers students and non-specialists an essential starting point and sets fresh agendas for research.

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Review Lara Freidenfelds (2022) Review of "Reproduction: Antiquity to the Present Day". Isis: International Review Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences (pp. 165-166). unapi

Review R. Allen Shotwell (2020) Review of "Reproduction: Antiquity to the Present Day". Early Science and Medicine: A Journal for the Study of Science, Technology and Medicine in the Pre-modern Period (pp. 73-75). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Oren-Magidor, Daphna
Walton, Benjamin
Trippett, David
Chase-Levenson, Alex
Francesca Ripamonti
James Rupert Fletcher
Concepts
Science and culture
Medicine and society
Reproduction
Biology
Medicine, general histories
Medicine
Time Periods
Early modern
18th century
Modern
Medieval
19th century
Enlightenment
Places
Europe
Mediterranean region
North America
Italy
Great Britain
United Kingdom
Institutions
University of Toronto
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