Assisting Reproduction, Testing Genes

Daphna Birenbaum-Carmeli is an Associate Professor of Medical Anthropology at the University of Haifa, Israel and has published extensively on the policy and practice of reproductive technologies in Israel.

Acknowledgements



Introduction: Assisting reproduction, testing genes: Global encounters with new biotechnologies

Daphna Birenbaum-Carmeli, Marcia C. Inhorn



PART I: FAMILIES AND BEYOND: REPRODUCTIVE TECHNOLOGIES AND NEW SOCIAL ORDERS



Chapter 1. East in west? Turkish migrants and the conception of the ethnic other in Germany

Lisa Vanderlinden



Chapter 2. Cultural meanings of assisted reproductive technologies: Women’s voices from Bulgaria

Yulia Panayotova and Irina L. G. Todorova



Chapter 3. ICSI: Reflections on male infertility and manhood in the Middle Eastern Muslim world

Marcia C. Inhorn



PART II: COUPLES AND OTHERS: ASSISTING REPRODUCTION WITH THIRD PARTIES



Chapter 4. The traffic between women: Female alliance and familial egg donation in Ecuador

Elizabeth Roberts



Chapter 5. Law, ethics, and donor technologies in Shi’a Iran

Soraya Tremayne



Chapter 6. Inappropriate relations: The ban on surrogacy with In Vitro fertilization and the limits of state renovation in contemporary Vietnam

Melissa J. Pashigian



Chapter 7. Contested surrogacy and the gender order: An Israeli case study

Daphna Birenbaum-Carmeli



PART III: TESTING GENES AND USING CELLS: ENCOUNTERS WITH ADVANCED GENETIC TECHNOLOGIES



Chapter 8. The genesis of embryos and ethics In Vitro: Practicing preimplantation genetic diagnosis in Argentina

Kelly Raspberry



Chapter 9. Assisted life: The neoliberal moral economy of embryonic stem cells in India

Aditya Bharadwaj



Chapter 10. Doubt is the mother of all invention: DNA and paternity in a Brazilian setting

Claudia Fonseca



Notes on contributors

Bibliography

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