Assisting Reproduction, Testing Genes: Global Encounters with the New Biotechnologies (Fertility, Reproduction and Sexuality: Social and Cultural Perspectives, 18)

ISBN 10: 1845456254 / ISBN 13: 9781845456252

Published by Berghahn Books, 2009

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Assisting Reproduction, Testing Genes: Global Encounters with the New Biotechnologies (Fertility, Reproduction and Sexuality: Social and Cultural Perspectives, 18)
• Publisher: Berghahn Books
• Publication Date: 2009
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1845456254
• ISBN 13: 9781845456252
• Binding: library
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

Following the routinization of assisted reproduction in the industrialized world, technologies such as in vitro fertilization, preimplantation genetic diagnosis, and DNA-based paternity testing have traveled globally and are now being offered to couples in numerous non-Western countries. This volume explores the application and impact of these advanced reproductive and genetic technologies in societies across the globe. By highlighting both the cross-cultural similarities and diverse meanings that technologies may assume as they enter multiple contexts, the book aims to foster understanding of both the technologies and the settings. Enhanced by cross-cultural perspectives, the book addresses the challenges that globalization presents to local understandings of science, technology, and medicine.

About the Authors

Daphna Birenbaum-Carmeli is an Associate Professor of Medical Anthropology at the University of Haifa, Israel and has published extensively on the policy and practice of reproductive technologies in Israel.

Marcia C. Inhorn is William K. Lanman Jr. Professor of Anthropology and International Affairs in the Department of Anthropology and the Whitney and Betty MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies at Yale University. She is also the past-President of the Society for Medical Anthropology of the American Anthropological Association. A specialist on infertility and assisted reproductive technologies in the Muslim Middle East, she is the author or editor of nine books on the subject.