God's Laboratory
Assisted Reproduction in the Andes
Assisted reproduction, with its test tubes, injections, and gamete donors, raises concerns about the nature of life and kinship. Yet these concerns do not take the same shape around the world. In this innovative ethnography of in vitro fertilization in Ecuador, Elizabeth F.S. Roberts explores how reproduction by way of biotechnological assistance is not only accepted but embraced despite widespread poverty and condemnation from the Catholic Church. Roberts' intimate portrait of IVF practitioners and their patients reveals how technological intervention is folded into an Andean understanding of reproduction as always assisted, whether through…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-0-520-95225-6
- EAN: 9780520952256
- Produktnummer: 21596097
- Verlag: Kensington Books
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2012
- Seitenangabe: 298 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 744 KB
- Auflage: 1. Auflage
Über den Autor
Elizabeth Roberts is Associate Professor of Anthropology at University of Michigan, investigating scientific and public health knowledge production and its embodied effects in Latin America and the United States.
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