Making Multiple Babies

Anticipatory Regimes of Assisted Reproduction

AvChia-Ling Wu

Inbunden, Engelska, 2023

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Beskrivning

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.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2023-02-10
Mått:152 x 229 x 23 mm
Vikt:532 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Fertility, Reproduction and Sexuality: Social and Cultural Perspectives
Antal sidor:264
Förlag:Berghahn Books
ISBN:9781800738522

Utforska kategorier

Antropologi inom Samhälle och politik
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Mer om författaren

Chia-Ling Wu is Professor of Sociology at the National Taiwan University. She has served as the editor-in-chief of East Asian Science, Technology and Society (EASTS), Journal of Women’s and Gender Studies, and Taiwanese Sociology. She co-founded Birth Reform Alliance in Taiwan, an NGO aiming to establish better reproductive care in Taiwan.

Recensioner i media

“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

Innehållsförteckning

List of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsList of AbbreviationsIntroductionChapter 1. Multiple Embryo Transfer: Anticipating Success and RiskChapter 2. eSET: Anticipating New Success and Re-Networking IVFChapter 3. When IVF Became a Nationalist GloryChapter 4. The Making of the World’s Most Lenient GuidelineChapter 5. Optimization within Disrupted ReproductionChapter 6. Women Encounter Fetal ReductionChapter 7. An-Tai: Active Maternal Body WorkConclusionReferencesIndex