antiquity to the present day Hopwood, Nick HerausgeberIn edt Flemming, Rebecca HerausgeberIn edt Kassell, Lauren HerausgeberIn edt text xxk XA-GB 2018 monographic eng 1 Online-Ressource ((xxxvi, 730 Seiten)) From contraception to cloning and pregnancy to populations, reproduction presents urgent challenges today. This field-defining history synthesizes a vast amount of scholarship to take the long view. Spanning from antiquity to the present day, the book focuses on the Mediterranean, western Europe, North America and their empires. It combines history of science, technology and medicine with social, cultural and demographic accounts. Ranging from the most intimate experiences to planetary policy, it tells new stories and revises received ideas. An international team of scholars asks how modern 'reproduction' - an abstract process of perpetuating living organisms - replaced the old 'generation' - the active making of humans and beasts, plants and even minerals. Striking illustrations invite readers to explore artefacts, from an ancient Egyptian fertility figurine to the announcement of the first test-tube baby. Authoritative and accessible, Reproduction offers students and non-specialists an essential starting point and sets fresh agendas for research edited by Nick Hopwood, Rebecca Flemming, Lauren Kassell E-Book / Zugriff nur im DHI-Lesesaal Fortpflanzung Kultur 9781107705647 1107705649 http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/9781107705647 http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/9781107705647 DE-627 181218 20240405122031.0 1043560173 ger