The Art of Making Children

Ansermet, Francois

Introduction -- Questions of Origin -- Introduction to Part I -- The gift of life -- The child explorer -- Why a child at all costs? -- Sexuality and procreation -- The father in procreation -- Being another -- New modes of origin -- Death in procreation -- Questions of Difference -- Introduction to Part II -- Donor insemination -- Same-sex procreation -- The child who comes from the cold -- A desire to clone -- Questions of Destiny -- Introduction to Part III -- A present-day oracle -- The tragedies of predictions -- The uncertainty of predictions -- The aspirations of pre-implantation diagnoses -- Procreation in the web of prediction -- Beyond Procreation -- Introduction to Part IV -- The mutations of the Symbolic -- Programmed not to be programmed -- The enclaves of the unexpected -- The fault line of origin -- Everything can always change