Kin, Gene, Community (eBook)

Yoram S. Carmeli is an anthropologist at the University of Haifa, Israel, who has researched reproductive technologies in Israel. His other writings focus on popular culture with a particular interest in British circuses. He has also researched sport and consumption in Israel. Carmeli is the co-editor (with Kalman Applbaum) of Consumption and Market Society in Israel (Berg Publishers).

Daphna Birenbaum-Carmeli is a medical sociologist at the University of Haifa, Israel. Her research concentrates on reproduction-related issues and the interface of health care and state politics. Birenbaum-Carmeli has published extensively in major professional journals and is the author of Tel Aviv North: The Making of a New Israeli Middle Class (Hebrew University Press) and the co-editor (with Marcia C. Inhorn) of Assisting Reproduction, Testing Genes: Global Encounters with New Biotechnologies (Berghahn Books).

List of Tables and Figures

Introduction: Reproductive Technologies among Jewish Israelis: Setting the Ground
Daphna Birenbaum-Carmeli and Yoram S. Carmeli

PART I: KIN: REPRODUCTIVE TECHNOLOGIES AND THE QUEST FOR BIOGENETIC PARENTHOOD

Chapter 1. The Contribution of Israeli Researchers to Reproductive Medicine: Fertility Experts' Perspectives
Shlomo Mashiach, Daphna Birenbaum-Carmeli, Roy Mashiach and Martha Dirnfeld

Chapter 2. The Regulation of Preimplantation Genetic Diagnosis for Sibling Donors in Israel, Germany and England: A Comparative Look at Balancing Risks and Benefits
Yael Hashiloni-Dolev and Shiri Shkedi

Chapter 3. The Man in the Sperm: Kinship and Fatherhood in Light of Male Infertility in Israel
Helene Goldberg

Chapter 4. The Last Outpost of the Nuclear Family: A Cultural Critique of Israeli Surrogacy Policy
Elly Teman

Chapter 5. Adoption and Assisted reproduction Technologies: A Comparative Reading of Israeli Policies
Daphna Birenbaum-Carmeli and Yoram S. Carmeli

PART II: GENE: REPRODUCTIVE TECHNOLOGIES AND THE QUEST FOR THE PERFECT CHILD

Chapter 6. Genetic Testing and Screening in Religious Groups: Perspectives of Jewish Haredi Communities
Barbara Prainsack and Gil Siegal

Chapter 7. Ultrasonic Challenges to Pronatalism
Tsipi Ivry

Chapter 8. Abortion Committees as Agents of Eugenics: Medical and Public Views on Selective Abortion following Mild or Likely Fetal Pathology
Nitzan Rimon-Zarfaty and Aviad Raz

Chapter 9. Cultural Values in Action: The Israeli Approach to Human Cloning
Gali Ben-Or and Vardit Ravitsky

PART III: COMMUNITY: A SELF-PORTRAIT WITH TECHNOLOGY

Chapter 10. Art, Community and Beyond: Human Embryonic Stem Cell Research in Israel
Interviews with Prof. Nissim Benvenisty and Prof. karl Skorecki Interviewer: Daphna Birenbaum-Carmeli

Chapter 11. Medicine and the State. The Medicalization of Reproduction in Israel
Yali Hashash-Daniel

Chapter 12. The Mirth of the Clinic: The Banality of Conception in an Israeli Fertility Clinic
Susan M. Kahn

Chapter 13. Between Reproductive Citizenship and Consumerism: Attitudes Towards Assisted Reproductive Technologies among Jewish and Arab Israeli Women
Larissa Remennick

Chapter 14. Ethnography, Exegesis, and Jewish Ethical Reflection: The New Reproductive Technologies in Israel
Don Seeman

Notes on Contributors