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Book 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.
Trade Review “Overall, this book provides good and interesting reading for all who want details of the cultural significances, religious and political impacts of ARTs as experienced by people of different ethnicity and religious background. Most importantly, this volume conveys the complexities of introducing and implementing ARTs in different cultures and political settings. It also brings to forth the meaning of reproduction in societies, the price and value of human life.” · Anthropological Notebooks
Table of Contents Acknowledgements
Introduction: Assisting reproduction, testing genes: Global encounters with new biotechnologies
Daphna Birenbaum-Carmeli, Marcia C. Inhorn
PART I: FAMILIES AND BEYOND: REPRODUCTIVE TECHNOLOGIES AND NEW SOCIAL ORDERS
Chapter 1. East in west? Turkish migrants and the conception of the ethnic other in Germany
Lisa Vanderlinden
Chapter 2. Cultural meanings of assisted reproductive technologies: Women’s voices from Bulgaria
Yulia Panayotova and Irina L. G. Todorova
Chapter 3. ICSI: Reflections on male infertility and manhood in the Middle Eastern Muslim world
Marcia C. Inhorn
PART II: COUPLES AND OTHERS: ASSISTING REPRODUCTION WITH THIRD PARTIES
Chapter 4. The traffic between women: Female alliance and familial egg donation in Ecuador
Elizabeth Roberts
Chapter 5. Law, ethics, and donor technologies in Shi’a Iran
Soraya Tremayne
Chapter 6. Inappropriate relations: The ban on surrogacy with In Vitro fertilization and the limits of state renovation in contemporary Vietnam
Melissa J. Pashigian
Chapter 7. Contested surrogacy and the gender order: An Israeli case study
Daphna Birenbaum-Carmeli
PART III: TESTING GENES AND USING CELLS: ENCOUNTERS WITH ADVANCED GENETIC TECHNOLOGIES
Chapter 8. The genesis of embryos and ethics In Vitro: Practicing preimplantation genetic diagnosis in Argentina
Kelly Raspberry
Chapter 9. Assisted life: The neoliberal moral economy of embryonic stem cells in India
Aditya Bharadwaj
Chapter 10. Doubt is the mother of all invention: DNA and paternity in a Brazilian setting
Claudia Fonseca
Notes on contributors
Bibliography
Index
