Reproductive issues from sex and contraception to abortion   and   cloning have been controversial for centuries, and scientists who   attempted to   turn the study of reproduction into a discipline faced an uphill   struggle. Adele   Clarke's engrossing story of the search for reproductive knowledge   across the   twentieth century is colorful and fraught with conflict.  Modern scientific study of reproduction, human and animal, began in the   United   States in an overlapping triad of fields: biology, medicine, and   agriculture.   Clarke traces the complicated paths through which physiological   approaches to   reproduction led to endocrinological approaches, creating along the way   new   technoscientific products from contraceptives to hormone therapies to   new modes   of assisted conceptionfor both humans and animals. She focuses on the   changing   relations and often uneasy collaborations among scientists and the key   social   worlds most interested in their workmajor philanthropists and a wide   array of   feminist and medical birth control and eugenics advocatesand recounts   vividly   how the reproductive sciences slowly acquired standing.  By the 1960s, reproduction was disciplined, and the young and contested   scientific enterprise proved remarkably successful at attracting private   funding   and support. But the controversies continue as womenthe targeted   consumerscreate their own reproductive agendas around the world.   Elucidating   the deep cultural tensions that have permeated reproductive topics   historically   and in the present, Disciplining Reproduction gets to the heart of the   twentieth   century's drive to rationalize reproduction, human and nonhuman, in   order to   control life itself.

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