Robert D Nachtigall
Biographic Data
| ID | 389811 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Robert D Nachtigall |
| GIVEN NAMES | Robert D |
| FAMILY NAME | Nachtigall |
| SIGNATURE | NACHTIGALL R D |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, San Francisco |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 201 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1991 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
There is such a thing as too many daughters, but not too many sons: A qualitative study of son preference and fetal sex selection among Indian immigrants in the United States
The Experience of Infertility by Low-Income Immigrant Latino Couples: Attitudes Toward Adoption
Low-income immigrant Latino couples attending an infertility clinic in San Francisco participated in three in-depth interviews. Couples were unwavering in their desire to become parents by "natural" means, yet faced with the prospect of childlessness, many expressed a guarded willingness to consider adoption in the future. Although few had actually made the commitment or initiated steps toward formal adoption, several couples had experiences with…
Older motherhood and the changing life course in the era of assisted reproductive technologies
Nonreproductive Technologies: Remediating Kin Structure with Donor Gametes
This article examines the absence of biological relatedness in couples where the use of a third-party gamete donor casts doubt on the notion of conventional kinship. The authors observe that individuals who have used technology to create a family remediate relatedness through a dehistoricized idea of kinship in which the traditional concept is replaced with the concept of chance. The article also examines how inherited value is replaced by strate…
Rethinking the biological clock: Eleventh-hour moms, miracle moms and meanings of age-related infertility
Resemblance talk: A challenge for parents whose children were conceived with donor gametes in the US
Born to be a mother: The cultural construction of risk in infertility treatment in the U.S
Eager for medicalisation: The Social Production of Infertility as a Disease
The social and cultural basis of medicalisation is explored through an examination of infertility, a social condition that has recently been recast as a disease. Infertility illustrates a basic dilemma of medicalisation: the health care system reflects the same value system at work throughout society. Placing social problems within a biomedical framework does not provide a satisfactory solution for conditions that deviate from cultural norms beca…
Ambiguous responsibility in the doctor-patient relationship: The case of infertility
Resemblance talk: A challenge for parents whose children were conceived with donor gametes in the US
Rethinking the biological clock: Eleventh-hour moms, miracle moms and meanings of age-related infertility
Eager for medicalisation: The Social Production of Infertility as a Disease
The social and cultural basis of medicalisation is explored through an examination of infertility, a social condition that has recently been recast as a disease. Infertility illustrates a basic dilemma of medicalisation: the health care system reflects the same value system at work throughout society. Placing social problems within a biomedical framework does not provide a satisfactory solution for conditions that deviate from cultural norms beca…
There is such a thing as too many daughters, but not too many sons: A qualitative study of son preference and fetal sex selection among Indian immigrants in the United States
Born to be a mother: The cultural construction of risk in infertility treatment in the U.S
Ambiguous responsibility in the doctor-patient relationship: The case of infertility
Older motherhood and the changing life course in the era of assisted reproductive technologies
Nonreproductive Technologies: Remediating Kin Structure with Donor Gametes
This article examines the absence of biological relatedness in couples where the use of a third-party gamete donor casts doubt on the notion of conventional kinship. The authors observe that individuals who have used technology to create a family remediate relatedness through a dehistoricized idea of kinship in which the traditional concept is replaced with the concept of chance. The article also examines how inherited value is replaced by strate…
The Experience of Infertility by Low-Income Immigrant Latino Couples: Attitudes Toward Adoption
Low-income immigrant Latino couples attending an infertility clinic in San Francisco participated in three in-depth interviews. Couples were unwavering in their desire to become parents by "natural" means, yet faced with the prospect of childlessness, many expressed a guarded willingness to consider adoption in the future. Although few had actually made the commitment or initiated steps toward formal adoption, several couples had experiences with…
Ambiguous responsibility in the doctor-patient relationship: The case of infertility
Eager for medicalisation: The Social Production of Infertility as a Disease
The social and cultural basis of medicalisation is explored through an examination of infertility, a social condition that has recently been recast as a disease. Infertility illustrates a basic dilemma of medicalisation: the health care system reflects the same value system at work throughout society. Placing social problems within a biomedical framework does not provide a satisfactory solution for conditions that deviate from cultural norms beca…
Born to be a mother: The cultural construction of risk in infertility treatment in the U.S
Resemblance talk: A challenge for parents whose children were conceived with donor gametes in the US
Rethinking the biological clock: Eleventh-hour moms, miracle moms and meanings of age-related infertility
Older motherhood and the changing life course in the era of assisted reproductive technologies
Nonreproductive Technologies: Remediating Kin Structure with Donor Gametes
This article examines the absence of biological relatedness in couples where the use of a third-party gamete donor casts doubt on the notion of conventional kinship. The authors observe that individuals who have used technology to create a family remediate relatedness through a dehistoricized idea of kinship in which the traditional concept is replaced with the concept of chance. The article also examines how inherited value is replaced by strate…
The Experience of Infertility by Low-Income Immigrant Latino Couples: Attitudes Toward Adoption
Low-income immigrant Latino couples attending an infertility clinic in San Francisco participated in three in-depth interviews. Couples were unwavering in their desire to become parents by "natural" means, yet faced with the prospect of childlessness, many expressed a guarded willingness to consider adoption in the future. Although few had actually made the commitment or initiated steps toward formal adoption, several couples had experiences with…
There is such a thing as too many daughters, but not too many sons: A qualitative study of son preference and fetal sex selection among Indian immigrants in the United States
Reproductive Health and Technologies (9 works) · Medicine (6 works) · Psychology (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Infertility (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Pregnancy (5 works) · Social Psychology (5 works) · Law (4 works) · Social Psychology (4 works)