Biological Relatives: IVF, Stem Cells, and the Future of Kinship - Brossura

Franklin, Sarah

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0822354993 ISBN 13: 9780822354994

Casa editrice: Duke University Press, 2013

Riassunto

Thirty-five years after its initial success as a form of technologically assisted human reproduction, and five million miracle babies later, in vitro fertilization (IVF) has become a routine procedure worldwide. InBiological Relatives, Sarah Franklin explores how the normalization of IVF has changed how both technology and biology are understood. Drawing on anthropology, feminist theory, and science studies, Franklin charts the evolution of IVF from an experimental research technique into a global technological platform used for a wide variety of applications, including genetic diagnosis, livestock breeding, cloning, and stem cell research. She contends that despite its ubiquity, IVF remains a highly paradoxical technology that confirms the relative and contingent nature of biology while creating new biological relatives. Using IVF as a lens, Franklin presents a bold and lucid thesis linking technologies of gender and sex to reproductive biomedicine, contemporary bioinnovation, and the future of kinship.

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L'autore:

Sarah Franklin holds the Professorship in Sociology at the University of Cambridge. She is the author ofDolly Mixtures: The Remaking of Genealogy and coeditor (with Susan McKinnon) ofRelative Values: Reconfiguring Kinship Studies, both also published by Duke University Press.

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Duke University Press
• Data di pubblicazione: 2013
• ISBN 10: 0822354993
• ISBN 13: 9780822354994
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 374