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03169aam a2200373 i 4500 001 34F9E0765D1D11EA9B49BA2197128E48 003 SILO 005 20200303010150 008 180226s2019 nju b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2018008421 020 $a 1978800517 020 $a 9781978800519 020 $a 1978800525 020 $a 9781978800526 035 $a (OCoLC)1029100516 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCO $d OCLCQ $d OCLCF $d YDX $d BDX $d CHVBK $d OCLCO $d YDX $d OCLCO $d L2U $d OCLCA $d UKMGB $d OCLCA $d OCLCQ $d SILO 042 $a pcc 050 00 $a HV875.5 W53 2019 100 1 $a Wichelen, Sonja van $e author. 245 10 $a Legitimating life : $b adoption in the age of globalization and biotechnology / $c Sonja van Wichelen. 264 1 $a New Brunswick, New Jersey : $b Rutgers University Press, $c [2019] 300 $a xii, 207 pages ; $c 23 cm. 490 1 $a Medical anthropology: health, inequality, and social justice 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 0 $a Introduction: adoption in the age of globalization and biotechnology -- The ethical market: between reproduction and humanitarianism -- Double movements: international law as transparency device -- Valuing bodies: somatic ethics in the biomedicalization of adoption -- Grievable lives: the adoptee and the child migrant -- Economies of return: openness, knowledge, relations -- Conclusion: legitimating life. 520 $a The phenomenon of transnational adoption is changing in the age of globalization and biotechnology. In Legitimating Life, Sonja van Wichelen boldly describes how contemporary justifications of cross-border adoption navigate between child welfare, humanitarianism, family making, capitalism, science, and health. Focusing on contemporary institutional practices of adoption in the United States and the Netherlands, she traces how professionals, bureaucrats, lawyers, politicians, social workers, and experts legitimate a practice that became progressively controversial. Throughout the past few decades transnational adoption transformed from a humanitarian response to a means of making family. In this new manifestation, life becomes necessarily economized. While push and pull factors, demand and supply dynamics, and competition between agencies set the stage for the globalization of adoption, international conventions, scientific knowledge, and the language of human rights universalized the phenomenon. Van Wichelen argues that such technoscientific legitimations of a globalizing practice are rearticulating colonial logics of race and civilization. Yet, she also lets us see beyond the biopolitical project and into alternative ways of making kin. 650 0 $a Intercountry adoption. 650 0 $a Human reproductive technology $x Social aspects. 776 08 $i Online version: $a Wichelen, Sonja van. $t Legitimating life. $d New Brunswick, New Jersey : Rutgers University Press, [2018] $z 9781978800533 $w (DLC) 2018012711 830 0 $a Medical anthropology (New Brunswick, N.J.) 941 $a 1 952 $l USUX851 $d 20200505015703.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=34F9E0765D1D11EA9B49BA2197128E48 994 $a C0 $b IWAInitiate Another SILO Locator Search