By Peter T. Ellison. 368 pp., illustrated. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press, 2001. $27.95. ISBN 0-674-00463-9.
For many of us, one of the most intellectually exciting areasof biomedical research during the past quarter-century has beenreproductive physiology, which has revealed the basic mechanismsof reproduction in all their chemical complexity and with alltheir exquisite temporal coordination. Given the nature of scientificresearch, much of this work has been narrowly focused and specialized,leading to a somewhat atomized and decontextualized pictureof the reproductive process as a whole. In this stimulatingbook, Harvard anthropologist Peter Ellison boldly attempts tocorrect that picture. Reproduction, he argues, must be seenas an integrated system operating in specific . . . [Full Text of this Article]
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