Doubt is the mother of all inventions : DNA and paternity in a Brazilian setting / Claudia Fonseca. Cultural meanings of assisted reproductive technologies : women's voices from Bulgaria / Yulia Panayotova and Irina L. G. Todorova -- Middle Eastern masculinities in the age of assisted reproductive technologies / Marcia C. Inhorn -- The traffic between women : female alliance and familial egg donation in Ecuador / Elizabeth F. S. Roberts -- Law, ethics, and donor technologies in Shia Iran / Soraya Tremayne -- Inappropriate relations : the ban on surrogacy with in vitro fertilization and the limits of state renovation in contemporary Vietnam / Melissa J. Pashigian -- Contested surrogacy and the gender order : an Israeli case study / Daphna Birenbaum-Carmeli -- The genesis of embryos and ethics in vitro : practicing preimplantation genetic diagnosis in Argentina / Kelly Raspberry -- Assisted life : the neoliberal moral economy of embryonic stem cells in India / Aditya Bharadwaj -- Doubt is the mother of all inventions : DNA and paternity in a Brazilian setting / Claudia Fonseca.
Summary:
Following the routinization of assisted reproduction in the industrialized world, technologies such as in vitro fertilization, preimplantation genetic diagnosis, and DNA-based paternity testing have traveled globally and are now being offered to couples in numerous non-Western countries. This volume explores the application and impact of these advanced reproductive and genetic technologies in societies across the globe. By highlighting both the cross-cultural similarities and diverse meanings that technologies may assume as they enter multiple contexts, the book aims to foster understanding of both the technologies and the settings. Enhanced by cross-cultural perspectives, the book addresses the challenges that globalization presents to local understandings of science, technology, and medicine.
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