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Biological relatives, IVF, stem cells, and the future of kinship, Sarah Franklin

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Biological relatives, IVF, stem cells, and the future of kinship, Sarah Franklin

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Biological relatives

Medium

electronic resource

Nature of contents

bibliographydictionaries

Oclc number

861634947

Responsibility statement

Sarah Franklin

Series statement

Experimental futuresKnowledge UnlatchedOpen Access e-Books

Sub title

IVF, stem cells, and the future of kinship

Summary

Thirty-five years after its initial success as a form of technologically assisted human reproduction, and five million miracle babies later, in vitro fertilization (IVF) has become a routine procedure worldwide. In Biological Relatives, Sarah Franklin explores how the normalization of IVF has changed how both technology and biology are understood. Drawing on anthropology, feminist theory, and science studies, Franklin charts the evolution of IVF from an experimental research technique into a global technological platform used for a wide variety of applications, including genetic diagnosis, livestock breeding, cloning, and stem cell research. She contends that despite its ubiquity, IVF remains a highly paradoxical technology that confirms the relative and contingent nature of biology while creating new biological relatives. Using IVF as a lens, Franklin presents a bold and lucid thesis linking technologies of gender and sex to reproductive biomedicine, contemporary bioinnovation, and the future of kinship. This title was made Open Access by libraries from around the world through Knowledge Unlatched.--, Provided by publisher

Table Of Contents

Miracle babies -- Living tools -- Embryo pioneers -- Reproductive technologies -- Living IVF -- IVF live -- Frontier culture -- After IVF

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