Biological Relatives - Ivf, Stem Cells, and the Future of Kinship

Informationen zum Autor Sarah Franklin Klappentext Sarah Franklin holds the Professorship in Sociology at the University of Cambridge. She is the author of Dolly Mixtures: The Remaking of Genealogy and coeditor (with Susan McKinnon) of Relative Values: Reconfiguring Kinship Studies, both also published by Duke University Press. "A model of what interdisciplinary intelligence can accomplish. Across several fields Biological Relatives shows how specific platforms or tools in the history of reproduction, kinship, and gender have provided discursive liftoff for further sites of knowledge and exploration. One of the strengths of this gripping account lies in that specificity, beginning with the iconic IVF and its epistemic work: a brilliant and exhilarating reprise of what we thought we knew, but now know differently." - Marilyn Strathern, University of Cambridge Zusammenfassung Sarah Franklin explores the history and future of in vitro fertilization (IVF) thirty-five years and five million babies after its initial success as a form of technologically-assisted human reproduction. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments ix Introduction. Relatively Biological 1 1. Miracle Babies 31 2. Living Tools 68 3. Embryo Pioneers 102 4. Reproductive Technologies 150 5. Living IVF 185 6. IVF Live 221 7. Frontier Culture 258 8. After IVF 297 Afterword 311 Notes 313 References 333 Index 351

Product details

• Authors: Sarah Franklin
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.11.2013
• EAN: 9780822354994
• ISBN: 978-0-8223-5499-4
• No. of pages: 277
• Series: Experimental Futures; Experimental Futures: Technolo; Experimental Futures; Experimental Futures: Technolo
• Subjects: Guides > Health; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > General; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories