Reproductive Technologies as Global Form

Seit vor 30 Jahren das erste 'Reagenzglas- Baby' der Welt geboren wurde, haben sich In- vitro-Fertilisation (IVF) und andere Technologien 'assistierter ' Reproduktion weltweit verbreitet. Behandlung Suchende, Spenderinnen von Eizellen, Samenbanken und Ärzte agieren über nationale Grenzen hinweg, nicht selten entlang der Wohlstandsbruchlinien zwischen Ost und West und Nord und Süd. Die Autoren zeichnen in ethnografischen Studien die große Vielfalt lokaler Anwendungen von Reproduktionstechnologien auf vier Kontinenten nach und folgen gleichzeitig den transnationalen Routen des Medizinmarktes. Die Reproduktionsmedizin steht dabei beispielhaft für die biotechnologische Globalisierung. In the thirty-five years since the first test-tube baby, in-vitro fertilization and other methods of reproductive assistance have become a common aspect of family life and medicine in affluent nations and, increasingly, throughout the world. How do persons seeking treatment, donors, and medical experts make use of these reproductive technologies? How in crossing borders between nations do they manage to evade legal and bioethical regulations? And how do they make sense of these new modes of making kinship against the backdrop of diverse worldviews and social settings? In bringing together a wide array of ethnographic studies this volume offers both a current snapshot of the complexity and diversity of local or national IVF-cultures and of emerging transnational forms of mobility, competition, inequality and collaboration. Reproductive technologies as global form refer to the simultaneity of replicating standards and creating differences, of displacements and reappropriations, raising a plethora of provocative questions for the future.

InhaltsangabeContents Acknowledgments.9 Reproductive Technologies as Global Form: Introduction.11 Michi Knecht, Maren Klotz, Stefan Beck Five Million Miracle Babies Later: The Biocultural Legacies of IVF.27 Sarah Franklin Localizing In Vitro Fertilization: The Cultural Work of Encounters with Medical Technologies Legacies and Linkages: Episodes in the Establishment of New Reproductive Technologies in Contemporary Sri Lanka.61 Bob Simpson Practitioners as Interface Agents between the Local and the Global: The Localization of IVF in Turkey.81 Zeynep B. Gürtin Making Connections: Reflecting on Trains, Kinship, and Information Technology.111 Maren Klotz National Styles of Reproductive Governance and Global Forms The Other Mother: Supplementary Wombs and the Surrogate State in India.139 Aditya Bharadwaj Assisted Reproductive Technologies in Mali: Asymmetries and Frictions.161 Viola Horbst Concerned Groups in the Field of Reproductive Technologies: A Turkish Case Study.197 Nurhak Polat Tracing Transnational Scapes of Reproductive Technologies: Emergent Forms and Domains of Regulation Globalization and Gametes: Reproductive 'Tourism', Islamic Bioethics, and Middle Eastern Modernity.229 Marcia C. Inhorn Reproducing Hungarians: Reflections on Fuzzy Boundaries in Reproductive Border Crossing.255 EvaMaria Knoll What is Europeanization in the Field of Assisted Reproductive Technologies?.283 Maren Klotz & Michi Knecht Transnational Reproductive Mobilities, Materialities, and Agencies Making Interferences: The Cultural Politics of Transnational Ova 'Donation'.305 Michal Nahman Resemblance that Matters: On Transnational Anonymized Egg Donation in Two European IVF Clinics.331 Sven Bergmann Biomedical Mobilities: Transnational Lab-Benches and Other SpaceEffects.357 Stefan Beck Notes on Contributors.375 Index of Names and Places.381