The Palgrave Handbook of Infertility in History Approaches, Contexts and Perspectives.

Includes bibliographies and index.

The Palgrave Handbook of Infertility in History; Acknowledgements; Contents; Abbreviations; List of Figures; List of Tables; Introduction: Infertility in History: Approaches, Contexts and Perspectives; Infertility in History; Defining Infertility in History; Silence, Stigma and Gaps in the Historical Record; Aims, Approaches and Agendas for Future Research; Medicine and Reproductive Technology; Kinship and the Family; Stratified Reproduction; Gender; Conclusion; Notes; Part I Defining the 'Problem': Perspectives on Infertility

Introduction: Defining the 'Problem': Perspectives on InfertilityNotes; Great Expectations: Infertility, Disability, and Possibility; My Story; Infertility as Disease; Infertility as Story; Infertility as Disability; Infertility in Literature; Conclusion; Notes; Research Resources; Theoretical Works on Illness and Infertility; Infertility, Illness and Literature; Infertility and Disability; Whose Fault is it Anyway? Plant Infertility in Antiquity; Introduction; Human Infertility in the Ancient World; Plant Infertility and the Environment in Antiquity

Plant Generation and Fertility in AntiquityWilderness and Cultivation; Conclusion; Notes; Research Resources; Primary Sources; Published Primary Sources; Secondary Sources; On Human Infertility in the Ancient World and its Treatment; On the Female Body in Antiquity, and its Comparison to a Field; On Ancient Botany, Fertility and Plants; From 'Fructification' to 'Insemination': Nomenclature and the Practice of Artificial Insemination; Introduction; J. Marion Sims and 'Artificial Fructification' in Reconstruction-Era America

'Baby Factories' and 'Artificial Fecundation' in Nineteenth-Century France'Test Tube Babies' and the Impact of Lay Language; Terminological Consensus: Defining Conception, Insemination, and the American Family; Conclusion; Notes; Research Resources; Primary Sources; Secondary Sources; Silences: Coping with Infertility in Nineteenth-Century Germany; Introduction; Perpetuating Silences, Reproducing Stigma? A Note on Methodology; Delineating Silences; Disclosure, Comfort, and Support; Autobiographical Representations of Childlessness; Conclusion; Notes; Research Resources; Primary Sources

Secondary Sources Oral History and Women's Accounts of Infertility in Postwar England; Introduction; Methodology; Women's Reproductive Lives in Post-1945 Britain; Expressions of Powerlessness and Fatalism; The Role of Medical Science and Fertility Treatment; Medical Professionals and Medical Power; Conclusion; Notes; Research Resources; Primary Sources; Archival Sources; Published Primary Sources; Secondary Sources; Part II The Body Politic and the Infertile Body; Introduction: The Body Politic and the Infertile Body; Notes

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