Main description:

In Thailand, infertility remains a source of stigma for those couples that combine a range of religious, traditional and high-tech interventions in their quest for a child. This book explores this experience of infertility and the pursuit and use of assisted reproductive technologies by Thai couples. Though using assisted reproductive technologies is becoming more acceptable in Thai society, access to and choices about such technologies are mediated by differences in class position. These stories of women and men in private and public infertility clinics reveal how local social and moral sensitivities influence the practices and meanings of treatment.

Contents:

Preface

Acknowledgments

Notes on Language and Transliteration

Abbreviations

Introduction: Culture Mediums

Chapter 1. The Birth of IVF in Thailand

Chapter 2. Incompleteness

Chapter 3. Begging for Babies

Chapter 4. Engaging Technologies

Chapter 5. The Clinical Ensemble

Chapter 6. Patriarchal Bargains

Chapter 7. 'Love Clinic': Cyber-sociality

Chapter 8. 'Technology that gives men hope'

Chapter 9. Carrying the Merit

Conclusion

Appendix

Glossary

References

Index