Making Parents
The Ontological Choreography of Reproductive Technologies
$70.86
- Paperback
360 pages
- Release Date
26 January 2007
Summary
Assisted reproductive technology (ART) makes babies and parents at once. Drawing on science and technology studies, feminist theory, and historical and ethnographic analyses of ART clinics, Charis Thompson explores the intertwining of biological reproduction with the personal, political, and technological meanings of reproduction. She analyzes the “ontological choreography” at ART clinics-the dynamics by which technical, scientific, kinship, gender, emotional, legal, political, financial, and…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780262701198 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0262701197 |
| Author: | Charis Thompson |
| Publisher: | MIT Press Ltd |
| Imprint: | MIT Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 360 |
| Edition: | 1st |
| Release Date: | 26 January 2007 |
| Weight: | 499g |
| Dimensions: | 229mm x 152mm x 22mm |
| Series: | Inside Technology |
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“Charis Thompson’s Making Parents is an extraordinary account of an extraordinary aspect of our world: the technological, legal, and moral complexities of becoming a parent in the twnety-first century. Throughout, Thompson maintains a wonderful double vision: seeing as a remarkably gifted, scientifically informed ethnographer and watching anxious and hopeful doctors, nurses, and would-be parents with compassion and self-reflection. It is, to be sure, a book that draws deeply on science studies and feminism, but it carries that work to new spaces and in new directions. It is an added and unusual bonus that she delivers the scholarship with grace, humor, and sparkle.” Peter Galison, Mallinckrodt Professor of the History of Science and of Physics, Harvard University
About The Author
Charis Thompson
Charis Thompson is Associate Professor of Rhetoric and Women’s Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. She is the author of Making Parents- The Ontological Choreography of Reproductive Technologies (MIT Press)
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