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Biological Relatives

Biological Relatives

IVF, Stem Cells, and the Future of Kinship

by Sarah Franklin
Hardback
Publication Date: 15/11/2013

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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.
ISBN:
9780822354857
9780822354857
Category:
Infertility & fertilization
Format:
Hardback
Publication Date:
15-11-2013
Language:
English
Publisher:
Duke University Press
Country of origin:
United States
Pages:
376
Dimensions (mm):
229x152x23mm
Weight:
0.64kg
Sarah Franklin

Sarah Franklin grew up in rural Gloucestershire and has lived in Austria, Germany, the USA and Ireland.

She lectures in publishing at Oxford Brookes University and has written for the Guardian, the Irish Times, Psychologies magazine and The Pool.

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