Games of Life : Czech Reproductive Biomedicine. Sociological Perspectives.

Intro -- CONTENT -- CHAPTER ONE Introduction to Games of Life (Iva Šmídová, Eva Šlesingerová, Lenka Slepičková) -- CHAPTER TWO Biopower and Reproductive Biomedicine in the Czech Republic. A Sociological Perspective (Lenka Slepičková, Eva Šlesingerová, Iva Šmídová) -- Biopower and Biomedicine as a Tool for the Control and Formation of Populations -- Medicalisation, Governmentality, Authoritative Knowledge -- The Research of Medicine in Czech Social Science -- Conceptual Inspiration for the Analysis of Specific Areas of Reproductive Medicine -- Conclusion: Critical Thoughts on Studying Czech Reproductive Biomedicine -- CHAPTER THREE Biopower, Life Itself and Reproductive Biotechnologies. The Concept of Life and the Genomization of Society (Eva Šlesingerová) -- Contemporary Biosocieties -- Biopower/Biopolitics - the "Old" and the "New". Bíos and Politics -- Biopower, Governmentality and Enhancement -- CHAPTER FOUR Embryo and Stem Cells Manipulation - Czech Context. Bio-objects and Their Borderlines (Eva Šlesingerová) -- The Nature of the Research Field -- Bio-objects in the Czech Republic. Manipulation, Defining, Boundary Work -- Final Remarks -- CHAPTER FIVE Medicine as Reproduced Powerlessness: Everyday Life in Czech Reproductive Medicine from the Physicians' Point of View (Iva Šmídová, Lenka Slepičková) -- Fieldwork Data -- The Biggest Problem of Contemporary Medicine as Seen by Doctors -- Physicians versus Patients -- Structural Obstacles and Exit as a(n Individual) Solution? -- Conclusion: Powerless Doctors in the Powerful System of Medicine -- CHAPTER SIX Establishing Trust - the Patient's Responsibility. The Role of Trust between the Patients and the Doctors in Assisted Reproduction (Lenka Slepičková) -- Trust and Late Modern Medicine -- Trust in Doctors as a Necessary Condition of Treatment and an Instrument to Discipline Patients.

Conclusion: Trust as the Responsibility of a Female Patient -- CHAPTER SEVEN Medical Childbirth Made in the Czech Republic: Required and Desired Practices -- The Spectre of Homebirth in the Czech Childbirth Debate and Beyond -- Doctors as Advocates of the Status Quo? -- What is Enough for a Change? The Building and the Atmosphere -- Everyday Hospital Work Requirements in Hospital Practice -- Legitimisation and Critique of the Status Quo -- Concluding Remarks on the Structural Context of the Doctors' Standpoints -- CHAPTER EIGHT Conclusion: Contemporary Challenges in Czech Reproductive Biomedicine (Eva Šlesingerová, Lenka Slepičková, Iva Šmídová) -- REFERENCES -- SUMMARY -- SHRNUTÍ -- NAME INDEX -- INDEX.

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