Reproductive technologies as global form : ethnographies of knowledge, practices, and transnational encounters.

Knecht, Michi (Hrsg.) u.a.:

ISBN 10: 3593391007 / ISBN 13: 9783593391007

Published by Frankfurt, M. ; New York, NY : Campus-Verl., 2012

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386 S. : Ill. ; 22 cm; Gutes Ex. - INHALT : Reproductive Technologies as Global Form: Introduction Michi Knecht, Maren Klotz, Stefan Beck -- Five Million Miracle Babies Later: The Biocultural -- Legacies of IVF -- Sarah Franklin -- Localizing In Vitro Fertilization: The Cultural Work of Encounters with Medical Technologies -- Legacies and Linkages: Episodes in the Establishment of New Reproductive Technologies in Contemporary Sri Lanka Bob Simpson -- Practitioners as Interface Agents between the Local and -- the Global: The Localization of IVF in Turkey -- Zeynep B Gürtin -- Making Connections: Reflecting on Trains, Kinship, and -- Information Technology -- Maren Klotz -- National Styles of Reproductive Governance and Global Forms -- The Other Mother: Supplementary Wombs and the -- Surrogate State in India -- Aditya Bharadwaj -- Assisted Reproductive Technologies in Mali: -- Asymmetries and Frictions -- Viola Hörbst -- Concerned Groups in the Field of Reproductive -- Technologies: A Turkish Case Study -- Nurhak Polat -- Tracing Transnational Scapes of Reproductive Technologies: Emergent Forms and Domains of Regulation -- Globalization and Gametes: Reproductive "Tourism," -- Islamic Bioethics, and Middle Eastern Modernity -- Marcia C Inborn -- Reproducing Hungarians: Reflections on Fuzzy Boundaries -- in Reproductive Border Crossing -- Eva-Maria Knoll -- What is Europeanization in the Field of Assisted -- Reproductive Technologies? -- Maren Klotz & Michi Knecht // u.a. ISBN 9783593391007 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 477.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Reproductive technologies as global form : ethnographies of knowledge, practices, and transnational encounters.
• Publisher: Frankfurt, M. ; New York, NY : Campus-Verl.
• Publication Date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3593391007
• ISBN 13: 9783593391007
• Binding: kart.
• Condition: Gut
• Weight: 477 grams
• Seller catalogs:
  • Soziologie

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Synopsis

In the thirty years since the first “test-tube baby,” in-vitro fertilization and other methods of reproductive assistance have become a common aspect of family life and medicine in developed nations—and, increasingly, throughout the world. This collection brings together ethnographic studies of how these reproductive technologies are deployed across a wide variety of nations and cultures, taking special account of how they are linked to aspirations towards modernity—and how they contribute to an ongoing reconfiguration of the boundaries of knowledge and human agency. The resulting volume offers both a current snapshot of the cultural state of reproductive technologies and a plethora of provocative questions for the future.

About the Authors

Michi Knecht is a senior researcher and lecturer, Maren Klotz is a research fellow, and Stefan Beck is professor in the Department of European Ethnology at Humboldt University Berlin.

Maren Klotz is a senior lecturer in the Department of European Ethnology at the Humboldt University Berlin. She is coeditor of Reproductive Technologies as Global Form: Ethnographies of Knowledge, Practices, and Transnational Encounters.