Reproducing Reproduction

by Franklin, Sarah; Ragone, Helena

• ISBN13: 9780812215847
• ISBN10: 0812215842
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1997-11-01
• Publisher: Univ of Pennsylvania Pr

Summary

Focusing on the key themes of power, kinship, and technological innovation, this volume offers a set of carefully argued empirical studies that emphasize the importance of ethnographic method, as well as anthropological theory, to current debates about the reproductive processes of humans, animals, and plants. In chapters on abortion, assisted conception, biodiversity conservation, artificial life sciences, adoption, intellectual property, and prenatal screening,Reproducing Reproductioncontends that ideologies of class, nation, health, gender, nature, and kinship have reproductive models at their core.

Table of Contents

Introduction	p. 1
Image of Contradiction: Obstetrical Ultrasound in American Culture	p. 15
Provisional Normalcy and "Perfect Babies": Pregnant Women's Attitudes Toward Disability in the Context of Prenatal Testing	p. 46
Producing Reproduction: Techniques of Normalization and Naturalization in Infertility Clinics	p. 66
Making Miracles: Scientific Progress and the Facts of Life	p. 102
Incontestable Motivations	p. 118
Irishness, Eurocitizens, and Reproductive Rights	p. 132
Rights to the Children: Foster Care and Social Reproduction in Hawai'i	p. 156
A Biodiversity Sampler for the Millennium	p. 173
Replicating Reproduction in Artificial Life: Or, the Essence of Life in the Age of Virtual Electronic Reproduction	p. 207
List of Contributors	p. 235
Index	p. 239
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