Haunting Images: A Cultural Account of Selective Reproduction in Vietnam
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Seeing and Selecting: Prenatal Ultrasound as A Screening Technology Seeing and Selecting: Prenatal Ultrasound as A Screening Technology
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Selective Reproduction: Questions of Choice Selective Reproduction: Questions of Choice
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Questioning Questions of Choice Questioning Questions of Choice
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The Globalization of Selective Reproduction: Challenges to Languages of Choice The Globalization of Selective Reproduction: Challenges to Languages of Choice
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Formations of Subjectivity: Choice as Belonging Formations of Subjectivity: Choice as Belonging
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Fieldwork Fieldwork
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Outline of this Book Outline of this Book
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Introduction: Choice as Belonging
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Published:22 February 2014
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Abstract
This introductory chapter outlines the main topics and arguments of Haunting Images. The chapter begins from the assumption that the life-and-death decisions that selective reproduction entails conjure questions of ethical subjectivity, compelling people to consider who they are and who they aspire to be. Drawing on ethnographic material from Vietnam, the author argues that reproductive decisions must be seen as acts of belonging rather than as matters of individual choice. They should be seen as ways in which people tie themselves together with others and into larger worlds of being. The chapter describes the global expansion of new technologies for selective reproduction and outlines the role played by obstetrical ultrasonography in this biomedical landscape. It shows how liberal ideals of informed choice, individual self-determination, and nondirective counseling have achieved moral primacy in the realm of selective reproduction in Western societies and points to the problems and limitations of the notion of reproductive choice. The chapter shows that in Vietnam and other Asian countries, new reproductive technologies are associated with different moral ideals, being officially framed in terms of collectivity, responsibility, and shared national goals. Finally, the chapter describes the fieldwork in Hanoi that forms the ethnographic basis for Haunting Images.
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