Eggonomics - The Global Market in Human Eggs and the Donors Who Supply Them

What happens when people are reduced to products? By pulling back the clinical curtain on the multi-billion dollar per year global egg industry, that is the central question Eggonomics seeks to address.

List of contents

Preface
Acknowledgments
List of terms and abbreviations
Introduction: Golden Eggs
Chapter 1: Frozen Futures
Chapter 2: The Perfect Donor
Chapter 3: Egg Machines
Chapter 4: Sunny Side Up
Chapter 5: Passports and Cryotanks
Chapter 6: Poached
Chapter 7: Cracked
Chapter 8: Egg Babies and Bio-Moms
Conclusion: Just Eggs
Index

About the author

Diane Tober is Associate Professor at The University of Alabama, Department of Anthropology, and the Institute for Social Science Research. She is also the author of Romancing the Sperm: Shifting Biopolitics and the Making of Modern Families.

Summary

What happens when people are reduced to products? By pulling back the clinical curtain on the multi-billion dollar per year global egg industry, that is the central question Eggonomics seeks to address.

Product details

• Authors: Diane M. Tober
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 22.10.2024
• EAN: 9781032549927
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3254992-7
• No. of pages: 360
• Series: Social Science Perspectives on Childbirth and Reproduction
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > Social education, social work; Sociology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, MEDICAL / Public Health, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies, HEALTH & FITNESS / Women's Health, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Disease & Health Issues, Sociology: customs & traditions, SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Biology, MEDICAL / Gynecology & Obstetrics, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography, Personal & public health, Illness & addiction: social aspects, Women's health, Women’s health, Gynaecology and obstetrics, Social and cultural anthropology, Gynaecology & obstetrics, Gender studies: women, Human biology, Gender studies: women and girls, Medical Sociology, Health, illness and addiction: social aspects, Personal and public health / health education