Main description:

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 explores the application and impact of these advanced reproductive and genetic technologies in societies across the globe. By highlighting both the cross-cultural similarities and diverse meanings that technologies may assume as they enter multiple contexts, the book aims to foster understanding of both the technologies and the settings. Enhanced by cross-cultural perspectives, the book addresses the challenges that globalization presents to local understandings of science, technology, and medicine.

Contents:

Acknowledgements

Introduction: Assisting reproduction, testing genes: Global encounters with new biotechnologies

Daphna Birenbaum-Carmeli, Marcia C. Inhorn

PART I: FAMILIES AND BEYOND: REPRODUCTIVE TECHNOLOGIES AND NEW SOCIAL ORDERS

Chapter 1. East in west? Turkish migrants and the conception of the ethnic other in Germany

Lisa Vanderlinden

Chapter 2. Cultural meanings of assisted reproductive technologies: Women's voices from Bulgaria

Yulia Panayotova and Irina L. G. Todorova

Chapter 3. ICSI: Reflections on male infertility and manhood in the Middle Eastern Muslim world

Marcia C. Inhorn

PART II: COUPLES AND OTHERS: ASSISTING REPRODUCTION WITH THIRD PARTIES

Chapter 4. The traffic between women: Female alliance and familial egg donation in Ecuador

Elizabeth Roberts

Chapter 5. Law, ethics, and donor technologies in Shi'a Iran

Soraya Tremayne

Chapter 6. Inappropriate relations: The ban on surrogacy with In Vitro fertilization and the limits of state renovation in contemporary Vietnam

Melissa J. Pashigian

Chapter 7. Contested surrogacy and the gender order: An Israeli case study

Daphna Birenbaum-Carmeli

PART III: TESTING GENES AND USING CELLS: ENCOUNTERS WITH ADVANCED GENETIC TECHNOLOGIES

Chapter 8. The genesis of embryos and ethics In Vitro: Practicing preimplantation genetic diagnosis in Argentina

Kelly Raspberry

Chapter 9. Assisted life: The neoliberal moral economy of embryonic stem cells in India

Aditya Bharadwaj

Chapter 10. Doubt is the mother of all invention: DNA and paternity in a Brazilian setting

Claudia Fonseca

Notes on contributors

Bibliography

Index