Reproductive technologies as global form : ethnographies of knowledge, practices, and transnational encounters - Beck, Stefan; Klotz, Maren; Knecht, Michi (Frankfurt ; New York : Campus Verlag, 2012)
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: the Turkish case study / Nurhak Polat. Tracing transnational spaces of reproductive technologies: emergent forms and domains of regulation. Globalization and gemetes: reproductive "tourism," Islamic bioethics, and Middle Eastern modernity / Maria C. Inhorn. 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. Transnational reproductive mobilities, materialities, and agencies, Making interferences: the cultural politics of transnational ova "donation" / Michal Nahman. Resemblance that matters: on transnational anonymized egg donation in two European IVF clinics / Sven Bergmann. Biomedical mobilities: transnational lab-benches and other space-effects / Stefan Beck.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Keywords: Reproductive technology -- Social aspects; koeputkihedelmöitys; kulttuurienvälinen tutkimus; lisääntyminen; teknologia; provrörsbefruktning; interkulturell forskning; förökning; teknologi