Sperm Counts: Overcome by Man's Most Precious Fluid2007 Choice Outstanding Academic Title |
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... narratives. I also base the observations in this book on the time I spent doing research in sperm banks and interviewing executive directors, board members, lab technicians, and recipients—the elusive ethnographic work mentioned earlier ...
... retrospective judgment rarely becomes reflexive among contemporary scientists, who behave as if they are not as culturally situated as their predecessors were. It is not a coincidence that the narrative I reconstruct 22 SPERM COUNTS.
... narrative I reconstruct here—sperm's rise to power, fall from grace, and resurrection—follows the retrospective popular cultural story of contemporary Western man's own rise to power and ongoing reaction to the perceived threat of ...
... narrative, scientists' gendered understandings of sperm and semen sometimes “leaks through” their scientific observations. For example, the well-known reproductive researcher, Henry Latou Dickinson, in his Human Sex Anatomy published in ...
... narratives, sketches, and visual observation only is now a probabilistic system that understands men's fertility based on a wide variety of quantifiable parameters. Now, the parameters of semen analysis have expanded to include volume ...
Contents
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The Money Shot in Pornography and Prostitution | 71 |
Sperm Banks and the Crisis of Fatherhood | 92 |
Semen as Evidence | 121 |
The Future of Sperm | 147 |