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Posts Tagged ‘fertility issues’

Technology, women’s careers, and fertility

My regular readers will know how I just love the occurrence of unintended consequences in social sciences. A while back, two professors in bio-medical ethics wrote an opinion piece in a Dutch newspaper, based on such an unintended consequence. And: it is also related to my future thesis!
With women giving birth at increasingly higher ages, [...]

Sociology Today: June 12, 2008

It has been a week since I started `Sociology Today‘. I’ve covered newspapers, free magazines found in public transportation, and blogs. All contained news that closely related to three main questions of sociology. It feels like this can indeed be continued indefinitely, but I will not do so on a daily basis. I’ve come to [...]

Stefan Brijs – The Angel Maker

How far is a single man willing to push scientific advancement in order to better God? Victor Hoppe is willing to go far, very far. This is the central theme of the book by Stefan Brijs, soon to be translated in English. In English, it will be called `The Angel Maker’, in Dutch ‘De engelenmaker’. [...]