Nameless Relations
Berghahn Books, Incorporated (Verlag)
978-1-57181-647-4 (ISBN)
Based on the author's fieldwork at assisted conception clinics in England in the mid-1990s, this is the first ethnographic study of the new procreative practices of anonymous ova and embryo donation. Giving voice to both groups of women participating in the demanding donation experience – the donors on the one side and the ever-hopeful IVF recipients on the other – Konrad shows how one dimension of the new reproductive technologies involves an unfamiliar relatedness between nameless and untraceable procreative strangers. Offsetting informants’ local narratives against traditional Western folk models of the ‘sexed’ reproductive body, the book challenges some of the basic assumptions underlying conventional biomedical discourse of altruistic donation that clinicians and others promote as “gifts of life.” It brings together a wide variety of literatures from social anthropology, social theory, cultural studies of science and technology, and feminist bioethics to discuss the relationship between recent developments in biotechnology and changing conceptions of personal origins, genealogy, kinship, biological ownership and notions of bodily integrity.
Monica Konrad is a Bye-Fellow of Girton College and Director of the PLACEB-O Research Orbital at the Department of Social Anthropology, University of Cambridge.
List of Figures
Preface
PART I: THE SECRETS IN THE GIFT
Chapter 1. What is Concealed Inside an Anonymously Donated Gamete?
Incoexistence
Inside Out
ART, Exteriorisation and Forms of Facelessness
Future Feminisms
‘Cosmic Egg’ Revisited
Ova Donors and Recipients
Finding Method in the Oblique
Implicit Links and Multiple Audiences
Chapter 2. Anonymity and the Way of Juxtaposition
Anonymity/taboo
Anonymity/openness
Anonymity/reciprocity
Anonymity/partibility
Anonymity/transilience
PART II: IN THE NAME OF THE UN-NAMED
Chapter 3. Donors I
Come Superovulate!
Free Gift Emerging
‘Not a Hardship at All’
Testimonies of Assistance
Intimately Impersonal
And Free Gift Receding
Becoming Special
Prestige and ‘Fame’
‘It’s Something I Must Do!’
Summary Link
Chapter 4. Donors II
Categories of De-identification and Degrees of Anonymisation
Strong, Indeterminate and Weak Anonymity
Knowledge Outcomes and the Form of the Return Gift
Neither Inalienable nor Forgettable
Remote Parenting?
Negotiated Maternity and the Ambiguous Progenetrix
Chapter 5. Donors III
Donating Agency, Extension and Intersubjective Spacetime
Reproducibility and Relations of Non-relations
Odelle: Genes by Proxy
Policy Link - Penny: Relations as Ripple Effects
Policy Link - Rita: Donating Adoption
Policy Link - Meena: Receiving Pardon
Summary Link
Dispossession, Effraction and Nontraceability
What Goes Round Comes round
What Goes around Comes around (Again)
Chapter 6. Recipients I
Gift Elasticity and the Infertility Industry
Egg-sharing, Egg-giving and Egg Donation
Anonymity, Kinship Distance and ‘Poison’ in the Gift
‘Like with Like’ and the Equivalence of Matching
Degrees of Information and Informational Gaps
The Idea of ‘Donor-release’
Mismatching
‘You See What You Want to See’
Blood Food Lines
Summary Link
Chapter 7. Recipients II
Accountability and Blood Manipulations
Revealing-while-keeping the Secret (Ella’s Effacement)
Whatever Happened to You?
Money Manipulations and Ova Pathways
Taming Contingency (I): Ova Pathways and Directing Flow
Taming Contingency (II): Ranking between Recipients
How Ova and Embryo Pathways Make Half-siblings
Policy Link
Summary Link
Chapter 8. Recipients III
Hyper-kinship within a Remaindered World
Eliciting Hyperembryo
Re-donation, Refusal and ‘Disowning Decisions’
Sacrificial Keeping-while-giving and Donation to Research
Obviating a Compounded Life
Liquidating the Third Party
Re-donation as Continuous Gifting
Summary Link
PART III: APPLICATIONS
Chapter 9. Unconcealing Extensional Transilience
Hyper-embryo into Infinite Partibility and the Sourcing of Embryonic Stem Cells
Policy Link
Transilient Kinship and Embryo Donor-conceived Children
Summary Link
Chapter 10. Unconcealing Regenerative Transilience
Spotlight on the Final Frontier
Envisioning the Problem of Ovarian Tissue and the Life-giving Death
Reconstituted Persons and the Extensional Imaginary
How it is Imagined Breath Circulates between Persons
How it is Imagined the Unborn Sibling Blood-donor Child Will Make New Life
Discussion
Chapter 11. Conclusion: Relations of Non-relations
Appendix I: Donor Biographical Profiles
Appendix II: Recipient Biographical Profiles
Appendix III: Treatment Protocol
Bibliography
Index
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 16.6.2005 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Fertility, Reproduction and Sexuality: Social and Cultural Perspectives |
| Verlagsort | Herndon |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
| Gewicht | 535 g |
| Themenwelt | Studium ► 1. Studienabschnitt (Vorklinik) ► Histologie / Embryologie |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Mikrosoziologie | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-57181-647-X / 157181647X |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-57181-647-4 / 9781571816474 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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