Assisting reproduction, testing genes : global encounters with new biotechnologies

This book discusses assisted reproduction, testing genes, global encounters with new biotechnologies, and the genesis of embryos and ethics in Argentina and Shi'a Iran.

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Acknowledgements Introduction: Assisting reproduction, testing genes: Global encounters with new biotechnologies Daphna Birenbaum-Carmeli and Marcia C. Inhorn PART I: FAMILIES AND BEYOND: REPRODUCTIVE TECHNOLOGIES AND NEW SOCIAL ORDERS Chapter. 1 East in west? Turkish migrants and the conception of the ethnic other in Germany Lisa Vanderlinden Chapter 2. Cultural meanings of assisted reproductive technologies: Women's voices from Bulgaria Yulia Panayotova and Irina L. G. Todorova Chapter 3. ICSI: Reflections on male infertility and manhood in the Middle Eastern Muslim world Marcia C. Inhorn PART II: COUPLES AND OTHERS: ASSISTING REPRODUCTION WITH THIRD PARTIES Chapter 4. The traffic between women: Female alliance and familial egg donation in Ecuador Elizabeth Roberts Chapter 5. Law, ethics, and donor technologies in Shi'a Iran Soraya Tremayne Chapter 6. Inappropriate relations: The ban on surrogacy with In Vitro fertilization and the limits of state renovation in contemporary Vietnam Melissa J. Pashigian Chapter 7. Contested surrogacy and the gender order: An Israeli case study Daphna Birenbaum-Carmeli PART III: TESTING GENES AND USING CELLS: ENCOUNTERS WITH ADVANCED GENETIC TECHNOLOGIES Chapter 8. The genesis of embryos and ethics In Vitro: Practicing preimplantation genetic diagnosis in Argentina Kelly Raspberry Chapter 9. Assisted life: The neoliberal moral economy of embryonic stem cells in India Aditya Bharadwaj Chapter 10. Doubt is the mother of all invention: DNA and paternity in a Brazilian setting Claudia Fonseca Notes on contributors Bibliography Index