Understanding Reproductive Loss: Perspectives on Life, Death and Fertility

Abstract

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of Figures and Tables -- Notes on Contributors -- An Introduction to Understanding Reproductive Loss -- 1 'Infertility' and 'Involuntary Childlessness': Losses, Ambivalences and Resolutions -- 2 International Perspectives on the Sterilization of Women with Intellectual Disabilities -- 3 The Social Shaping of Fertility Loss Due to Cancer Treatment: A Comparative Perspective -- 4 Reconstructing Childbirth Expectations after Pre-eclampsia -- 5 Diabetes and the Pregnancy Paradox: The Loss of Expectations and Reproductive Futures -- 6 'Silent' Miscarriage and Deafening Heteronormativity: A British Experiential and Critical Feminist Account -- 7 Surrogate Losses: Failed Conception and Pregnancy Loss Among American Surrogate Mothers -- 8 Focusing on Force and Forms in Cameroon: Reproductive Loss Reconsidered -- 9 Bereaved Parents: A Contradiction in Terms? -- 10 'Troubling the Normal': 'Angel Babies' and the Canny/Uncanny Nexus -- 11 Baby Gardens: A Privilege or Predicament? -- 12 The Memorialization of Stillbirth in the Internet Age -- 13 'As If She Never Existed': Changing Understandings of Perinatal Loss in Australia in the Twentieth and Early Twenty-First Century -- 14 Hiding Babies: How Birth Professionals Make Sense of Death and Grief -- 15 Managing Emotions at the Time of Stillbirth and Neonatal Death -- 16 Experiences of Reproductive Loss: The Importance of Professional Discretion in Caring for a Patient Group with Diverse Views -- Index.