Biological Relatives

IVF, Stem Cells, and the Future of Kinship

By:

Sarah Franklin

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Paperback / softback

Series:

Experimental Futures

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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.

Author Biography:

Sarah Franklin holds the Professorship in Sociology at the University of Cambridge. She is the author of Dolly Mixtures: The Remaking of Genealogy and coeditor (with Susan McKinnon) of Relative Values: Reconfiguring Kinship Studies, both also published by Duke University Press.

Release date NZ

November 15th, 2013

Author

Sarah Franklin

Audiences

Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Professional & Vocational

Illustrations

30 illustrations, 1 table

Pages

376

Series

Experimental Futures

Dimensions

3895x5830x15

ISBN-13

9780822354994

Product ID

21410683

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