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See AllSociologist Monica Casper, who has written previously on fetal surgery, has published a new book called Babylost: Racism, Survival, and the Quiet Politics of Infant Mortality, from A to Z. The book co
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I almost didn’t read The Family Roe: An American Story by Joshua Prager. When I saw the premise – a biography of Norma McCorvey, the “Jane Roe” of Roe v. Wade, and her family – I wasn’t immediately su
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This is a pre-publication draft of a book review appearing in Technology and Culture, v. 63, n. 1, 2022 Most scholars would find the prospect of writing a global history of in vitro fertilization (IVF
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