Imperfect Conceptions: Medical Knowledge, Birth Defects and Eugenics in China Pdf

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Edition: 1
Release: 1998-11-15
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN/ASIN: 0231113706
Format: hardcover, kindle, PDF, EPUB

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In 1995 the People's Republic of China passed a controversial Eugenics Law, which, after a torrent of international criticism, was euphemistically renamed the Maternal and Infant Health Law. Aimed at "the implementation of premarital medical checkups" to ensure that neither partner has any hereditary, venereal, reproductive, or mental disorders, the ordinance implies that those deemed "unsuitable for reproduction" should undergo sterilization or abortion or remain celibate in order to prevent "inferior births." Using this recent statute as a springboard, Frank Dikötter explores the contexts and history of eugenics in both Communist China and Taiwan. Dikötter shows how beginning in Late Imperial China, Western eugenics was imported and combined with existing fears of cultural, racial, or biological degeneration in Chinese society, leading to government regulation of sexual reproduction. Imperfect Conceptions is a revealing look at the cultural history of medical explanations of birth Download Imperfect Conceptions for free via rapidshare, mediafire, 4shared, dropBox, uploading, fileserve

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