Main description:

Human beings have been producing more twins, triplets, and quadruplets than ever before, due to the expansion of medically assisted conception. This book analyzes the anticipatory regimes of making multiple babies. With archival documents, participant observation, in-depth interviews, and registry data, this book traces the global and local governance of the assisted reproductive technologies (ARTs) used to tackle multiple pregnancy since the 1970s, highlighting the early promotion of single embryo transfer in Belgium and Japan and the making of the world's most lenient guidelines in Taiwan.

Contents:

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgments

List of Abbreviations

Introduction

Chapter 1. Multiple Embryo Transfer: Anticipating Success and Risk

Chapter 2. eSET: Anticipating New Success and Re-Networking IVF

Chapter 3. When IVF Became a Nationalist Glory

Chapter 4. The Making of the World's Most Lenient Guideline

Chapter 5. Optimization within Disrupted Reproduction

Chapter 6. Women Encounter Fetal Reduction

Chapter 7. An-Tai: Active Maternal Body Work

Conclusion

References

Index