Infertility - Tracing the History of a Transformative Term

Analyzes how infertility has been defined in and across technical, mainstream and lay communities, and how different and emergent conceptualizations of infertility have had implications for individuals and the societies in which they live.

About the author

Robin E. Jensen is Associate Professor of Communication at the University of Utah and the author of Dirty Words: The Rhetoric of Public Sex Education in the United States, 1870-1924 (2010).

Summary

Analyzes how infertility has been defined in and across technical, mainstream and lay communities, and how different and emergent conceptualizations of infertility have had implications for individuals and the societies in which they live.

Product details

• Authors: Robin E. Jensen, Robin E. (University of Utah) Jensen
• Publisher: University Presses
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 10.10.2016
• EAN: 9780271076195
• ISBN: 978-0-271-07619-5
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 23 mm
• Weight: 476 g
• Illustrations: Raster,schwarz-weiss
• Series: Rsa Series in Transdisciplinar; Rsa Series in Transdisciplinary Rhetoric; RSA Series in Transdisciplinary Rhetoric; Rsa Transdisciplinary Rhetoric
• Subjects: Guides > Health; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > General; Social sciences, law, business > Media, communication > Communication science; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Social Policy, MEDICAL / History, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Rhetoric, History of Medicine, Communication Studies, Semantics, discourse analysis, stylistics