Description
Book Synopsis Human beings have been producing more twins, triplets, and quadruplets than ever before, due to the expansion of medically assisted conception. This book analyzes the anticipatory regimes of making multiple babies. With archival documents, participant observation, in-depth interviews, and registry data, this book traces the global and local governance of the assisted reproductive technologies (ARTs) used to tackle multiple pregnancy since the 1970s, highlighting the early promotion of single embryo transfer in Belgium and Japan and the making of the world’s most lenient guidelines in Taiwan.
Trade Review “This book is a fascinating and insightful read … The author presents the concept of "anticipatory governance" as a means of exploring the evolving regulation of IVF. This is very useful and something I will certainly apply in my own work.” • Andrea Whittaker, Monash University
Table of Contents List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
List of Abbreviations
Introduction
Chapter 1. Multiple Embryo Transfer: Anticipating Success and Risk
Chapter 2. eSET: Anticipating New Success and Re-Networking IVF
Chapter 3. When IVF Became a Nationalist Glory
Chapter 4. The Making of the World’s Most Lenient Guideline
Chapter 5. Optimization within Disrupted Reproduction
Chapter 6. Women Encounter Fetal Reduction
Chapter 7. An-Tai: Active Maternal Body Work
Conclusion
References
Index
