Reproducing Reproduction: Kinship, Power, and Technological Innovation

Franklin, Sarah [Editor]; Ragone, Helena [Editor]; Ragoné, Helena [Editor];

ISBN 10: 0812215842 / ISBN 13: 9780812215847

Published by University of Pennsylvania Press, 1997

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• Title: Reproducing Reproduction: Kinship, Power, and Technological Innovation
• Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Publication Date: 1997
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0812215842
• ISBN 13: 9780812215847
• Binding: paperback
• Condition: New
• Weight: 14 ounces

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Focusing on the key themes of power, kinship, and technological innovation, this volume offers a set of carefully argued empirical studies that emphasize the importance of ethnographic method, as well as anthropological theory, to current debates about the reproductive processes of humans, animals, and plants. In chapters on abortion, assisted conception, biodiversity conservation, artificial life sciences, adoption, intellectual property, and prenatal screening, Reproducing Reproduction contends that ideologies of class, nation, health, gender, nature, and kinship have reproductive models at their core.

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Focusing on the key themes of power, kinship, and technological innovation, this volume offers a set of carefully argued studies that emphasize the importance of ethnographic method, as well as anthropological theory, to current debates about the reproductive processes of humans, animals, and plants. Reproducing Reproduction addresses these debates in a range of sites in which reproduction is being redefined and argues persuasively for a renewed appreciation of the centrality of reproductive politics to cultural and historical change. In chapters on abortion, assisted conception, biodiversity conservation, artificial life sciences, adoption, intellectual property, and prenatal screening, Reproducing Reproduction contends that ideologies of class, nation, health, gender, nature, and kinship have reproductive models at their core. Including prize-winning essays by Charis Cussins and Stefan Helmreich, this volume will be of great interest to a wide audience in the social sciences and health technology fields.