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An imaginative and original reappraisal of reproductive science, Bodies in glass explores the complex cultural landscape and emergent iconographic bodies of in vitro fertilisation (IVF) and medical genetic discourse. Through a compelling deconstruction of medical and legal languages, texts and institutional practices, Deborah Lynn Steinberg traces the convergence of four key logics-authorial, recombinant, embryo-protectionist and eugenic-which, she argues, are embedded in the field of IVF; the textual material processes of erasure and recombination of women's bodies and reproductive'fitness'.