Assisting Reproduction, Testing Genes : : Global Encounters with the New Biotechnologies /

Assisting Reproduction, Testing Genes : : Global Encounters with the New Biotechnologies / / ed. by Daphna Birenbaum-Carmeli, Marcia C. Inhorn.

Following the routinization of assisted reproduction in the industrialized world, technologies such as in vitro fertilization, preimplantation genetic diagnosis, and DNA-based paternity testing have traveled globally and are now being offered to couples in numerous non-Western countries. This volume...

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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,
Inhorn, Marcia C.,
Place / Publishing House:New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2009]
©2009
Year of Publication:2009
Language:English
Series:Fertility, Reproduction and Sexuality: Social and Cultural Perspectives ; 18
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Physical Description:1 online resource (304 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • List of Tables and Figures
  • Introduction: Reproductive Technologies among Jewish Israelis: Setting the Ground
  • PART I Kin: Reproductive Technologies and The Quest For Biogenetic Parenthood
  • 1. The Contribution of Israeli Researchers to Reproductive Medicine: Fertility Experts’ Perspectives
  • 2. The Regulation of Preimplantation Genetic Diagnosis for Sibling Donors in Israel, Germany, and England: A Comparative Look at Balancing Risks and Benefits
  • 3. The Man in the Sperm: Kinship and Fatherhood in Light of Male Infertility in Israel
  • 4. The Last Outpost of the Nuclear Family: A Cultural Critique of Israeli Surrogacy Policy
  • 5. Adoption and Assisted Reproduction Technologies: A Comparative Reading of Israeli Policies
  • PART II Gene: Reproductive Technologies and The Quest For The Perfect Child
  • 6. Genetic Testing and Screening in Religious Groups: Perspectives of Jewish Haredi Communities
  • 7. Ultrasonic Challenges to Pro-Natalism
  • 8. Abortion Committees as Agents of Eugenics: Medical and Public Views on Selective Abortion Following Mild or Likely Fetal Pathology
  • 9. Cultural Values in Action: The Israeli Approach to Human Cloning
  • PART III Community: A Self-Portrait With Technology
  • 10. ART, Community, and Beyond: Human Embryonic Stem Cell Research in Israel—Interviews with Prof. Nissim Benvenisty and Prof. Karl Skorecki
  • 11. Medicine and the State: The Medicalization of Reproduction in Israel
  • 12. The Mirth of the Clinic: Fieldnotes from an Israeli Fertility Center
  • 13. Between Reproductive Citizenship and Consumerism: Attitudes towards Assisted Reproductive Technologies among Jewish and Arab Israeli Women
  • 14. Ethnography, Exegesis, and Jewish Ethical Refl ection: The New Reproductive Technologies in Israel
  • Notes on Contributors
  • Index

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