Monica Konrad

(Author)

Nameless Relations: Anonymity, Melanesia and Reproductive Gift Exchange Between British Ova Donors and RecipientsHardcover, 1 May 2005

Nameless Relations: Anonymity, Melanesia and Reproductive Gift Exchange Between British Ova Donors and Recipients
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Part of Series
Fertility, Reproduction and Sexuality: Social and Cultural P
Part of Series
Fertility, Reproduction, and Sexuality
Part of Series
Fertility, Reproduction and Sexuality
Print Length
304 pages
Language
English
Publisher
Berghahn Books
Date Published
1 May 2005
ISBN-10
157181647X
ISBN-13
9781571816474

Description

Based on the author's fieldwork at assisted conception clinics in England in the mid-1990s, this is the first ethnographic study of the new procreative practices of anonymous ova and embryo donation. Giving voice to both groups of women participating in the demanding donation experience - the donors on the one side and the ever-hopeful IVF recipients on the other - Konrad shows how one dimension of the new reproductive technologies involves an unfamiliar relatedness between nameless and untraceable procreative strangers. Offsetting informants' local narratives against traditional Western folk models of the 'sexed' reproductive body, the book challenges some of the basic assumptions underlying conventional biomedical discourse of altruistic donation that clinicians and others promote as "gifts of life." It brings together a wide variety of literatures from social anthropology, social theory, cultural studies of science and technology, and feminist bioethics to discuss the relationship between recent developments in biotechnology and changing conceptions of personal origins, genealogy, kinship, biological ownership and notions of bodily integrity.

Product Details

Author:
Monica Konrad
Book Format:
Hardcover
Country of Origin:
US
Date Published:
1 May 2005
Dimensions:
22.86 x 15.24 x 1.91 cm
ISBN-10:
157181647X
ISBN-13:
9781571816474
Language:
English
Location:
New York, NY
Pages:
304
Publisher:
Weight:
576.06 gm

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