Description: Reproductive Technologies: The Birth of a Women-Centered Analysis.- Diethylstilbestrol: An Interdisciplinary Analysis.- Overview.- The DES Controversy: Discovery Distribution and Regulation.- Assessment of Risks from DES: An Analysis of Research on Those Exposed during Pregnancy or In Utero.- The Legal Aspects of the DES Case: What Can Be Done.- DES and Drugs in Pregnancy: A Consumer Reaction.- DES: Ten Points of Controversy.- DES Discussion.- Prenatal Diagnosis.- Overview.- A Look at Prenatal Diagnosis within the Context of Changing Parental and Reproductive Norms.- Prenatal Diagnosis.- Antenatal Diagnosis: The Physician-Patient Relationship.- Policy Decisions in Prenatal Diagnosis: The Example of Fetal Alcoholism Syndrome.- The Politics of Prenatal Diagnosis: A Feminist Ethical Analysis.- Prenatal Diagnosis Discussion.- The Neonate.- Introductory Remarks.- Neonatology: Directions and Goals.- Perfectability and the Neonate: The Burden of Expectations on Mothers and Their Health Providers.- Decisions About Handicapped Newborns: Values and Procedures.- Response.- Rights of a Handicapped Neonate: What Every Parent and Professional Should Know.- Living with an Impaired Neonate and Child: A Feminist Issue.- Neonate Discussion.- Sex Preselection.- Technical Aspects of Sex Preselection.- Futuristic Implications of Sex Preselection.- Unnatural Selection: On Choosing Children's Sex.- Response.- Response.- Sex Preselection: A Response.- Sex Preselection: Discussion Moderator's Remarks.- Sex Preselection Discussion.- Manipulative Reproductive Technologies.- Overview.- Biological Manipulations for Producing and Nurturing Mammalian Embryos.- Ethics and Reproductive Technology.- Response.- Manipulative Reproductive Technologies Discussion: Part I.- The Case Against In VitroFertilization and Implantation.- In Defense of In Vitro Fertilization.- In Vitro Fertilization and Embryo Transfer: The Process of Making Public Policy.- Manipulative Reproductive Technologies Discussion: Part II.- The Biology of Utopia: Science Fiction Perspectives on Ectogenesis.- Ectogenesis and Ideology.- Manipulative Reproductive Technologies Discussion: Part III.- Reflections: Uncovering Patriarchal Agendas and Exploring Woman-Oriented Values.- Appendix: Resolutions.- Notes and References.- Biographies.

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