Second life : having a child in the digital age / Amanda Hess.

  • Hess, Amanda, (Journalist)
Date:
2025
  • Books

About this work

Description

"In Second Life, Hess tells her deeply personal story of a pregnancy that falls outside the fêted category of 'normal'. But this is also a story about all of us. For as she made her way through a bizarre digital world of pregnancy apps, prenatal genetic tests, gender reveal videos, rare disease Facebook groups, 'freebirth' influencers and hospital reality shows, Hess realised that ideas of eugenics, surveillance, ableism and hyper-individualism are being sold through shiny technologies to a new generation of parents. At once funny, surreal and heartbreaking, Second Life asks compelling questions about how our most fundamental human experiences are fractured and reshaped by technology."-- From Publisher.

Publication/Creation

London : Abacus, 2025.

Physical description

257 pages ; 23 cm

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  • LocationStatus
    History of Medicine
    UND.Q
    Open shelves

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ISBN

  • 9781408718612