Games of life : Czech reproductive biomedicine : sociological perspectives / Iva Šmídová, Eva Šlesingerová, Lenka Slepičková ; translation Barbora Hammondová, Sylva Ficová.

Games of Life analyses current reproductive medicine in the Czech Republic. It targets biomedicine as a concrete manifestation of modern society’s normalization of Western approach to human health and illness by focusing on three specific fields: childbirth, assisted reproduction, and embryo manipulation. The objective of the book is to provide a critical sociological analysis of reproductive medicine as one of the key poles in the current form of biopower. It elaborates on the questions how the borders are negotiated between normality/legitimacy in the definitions of health and illness within the three specialized fields of reproductive medicine, how trust is established within the system of modern reproductive medicine, and how intersectionality, particularly status and gender, enters into this process.