Kin, Gene, Community : : Reproductive Technologies among Jewish Israelis / / ed. by Daphna Birenbaum-Carmeli, Yoram S. Carmeli.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2000-2013
• MitwirkendeR: Ben-Or, Gali,; Birenbaum-Carmeli, Daphna,; Carmeli, Yoram S.,; Dirnfeld, Martha,; Goldberg, Helene,; Hashash, Yali,; Hashiloni-Dolev, Yael,; Ivry, Tsipy,; Kahn, Susan Martha,; Mashiach, Roy,; Mashiach, Shlomo,; Prainsack, Barbara,; Ravitsky, Vardit,; Raz, Aviad,; Remennick, Larissa,; Rimon-Zarfaty, Nitzan,; Seeman, Don,; Shkedi, Shiri,; Sigal, Gil,; Teman, Elly,
• HerausgeberIn: Birenbaum-Carmeli, Daphna,; Carmeli, Yoram S.,
• Place / Publishing House: New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2010]; ©2010
• Year of Publication: 2010
• Language: English
• Series: Fertility, Reproduction and Sexuality: Social and Cultural Perspectives ; 19
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (344 p.)

Israel is the only country in the world that offers free fertility treatments to nearly any woman who requires medical assistance. It also has the world's highest per capita usage of in-vitro fertilization. Examining state policies and the application of reproductive technologies among Jewish Israelis, this volume explores the role of tradition and politics in the construction of families within local Jewish populations. The contributors—anthropologists, bioethicists, jurists, physicians and biologists—highlight the complexities surrounding these treatments and show how biological relatedness is being construed as a technology of power; how genetics is woven into the production of identities; how reproductive technologies enhance the policing of boundaries. Donor insemination, IVF and surrogacy, as well as abortion, pre-implantation genetic diagnosis and human embryonic stem cell research, are explored within local and global contexts to convey an informed perspective on the wider Jewish Israeli environment.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Tables and Figures -- Introduction: Reproductive Technologies among Jewish Israelis: Setting the Ground -- Part I Kin: Reproductive Technologies and The Quest for Biogenetic Parenthood -- Chapter 1 The Contribution of Israeli Researcrchers to Reproductive Medicine: Fertility Experts’ Perspectives -- Chapter 2 The Regulation of Preimplantation Genetic Diagnosis for Sibling Donors in Israel, Germany, and England: A Comparative Look at Balancing Risks and Benefits -- Chapter 3 The Man in the Sperm: Kinship and Fatherhood in Light of Male Infertility in Israel -- Chapter 4 The Last Outpost of the Nuclear Family: A Cultural Critique of Israeli Surrrrogacy Policy -- Chapter 5 Adoption and Assisted Reproduction Technologies: A Comparative Reading of Israeli Policies -- Part II Gene: Reproductive Technologies and the Quest for the Perfrfect Child -- Chapter 6 Genetic Testing and Scrcreening in Religious Groups: Perspectives of Jewish Haredi Communities1 -- Chapter 7 Ultrasonic Challenges to Pro-Natalism -- Chapter 8 Abortion Committees as Agents of Eugenics: Medical and Public Views on Selective Abortion Following Mild or Likely Fetal Pathology -- Chapter 9 Cultural Values in Action: The Israeli Approach to Human Cloning -- Part III Community: A Self-Portrait With Technology -- Chapter 10 ART, Community, and Beyond: Human Embryonic Stem Cell Researcrch in Israel -- Chapter 11 Medicine and the State: The Medicalization of Reproduction in Israel -- Chapter 12 The Mirth of the Clinic: Fieldnotes from an Israeli Fertility Center -- Chapter 13 Between Reproductive Citizenship and Consumerism: Attitudes towards Assisted Reproductive Technologies among Jewish and Arab Israeli Women -- Chapter 14 Ethnogrgraphy, Exegesis, and Jewish Ethical Reflection: The New Reproductive Technologies in Israel -- Notes on Contributors -- Index