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dc.contributor.authorFranklin, Sarah
dc.date.accessioned2022-12-08T12:17:39Z
dc.date.available2022-12-08T12:17:39Z
dc.date.issued2013
dc.identifierONIX_20221208_9780822378259_8
dc.identifier.urihttps://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/94662
dc.description.abstractThirty-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. In Biological 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.
dc.languageEnglish
dc.subject.classificationbic Book Industry Communication::J Society & social sciences::JH Sociology & anthropology::JHM Anthropology::JHMC Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JH Sociology and anthropology::JHM Anthropology::JHMC Social and cultural anthropologyen_US
dc.subject.otherSocial & cultural anthropology
dc.titleBiological Relatives
dc.title.alternativeIVF, Stem Cells, and the Future of Kinship
dc.typebook
oapen.identifier.doi10.1353/book.66758
oapen.relation.isPublishedBy8b9381d6-252e-4bed-8478-ee620c861aac
oapen.relation.isbn9780822378259
oapen.pages374


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