Israel is the only country in the world that offers free fertility
treatments to nearly any woman who requires medical assistance. It
also has the world's highest per capita usage of in-vitro
fertilization. Examining state policies and the application of
reproductive technologies among Jewish Israelis, this volume
explores the role of tradition and politics in the construction of
families within local Jewish populations. The
contributors-anthropologists, bioethicists, jurists, physicians and
biologists-highlight the complexities surrounding these treatments
and show how biological relatedness is being construed as a
technology of power; how genetics is woven into the production of
identities; how reproductive technologies enhance the policing of
boundaries. Donor insemination, IVF and surrogacy, as well as
abortion, pre-implantation genetic diagnosis and human embryonic
stem cell research, are explored within local and global contexts
to convey an informed perspective on the wider Jewish Israeli
environment.
Daphna Birenbaum-Carmeli is a medical sociologist at the
University of Haifa, Israel. Her research concentrates on
reproduction-related issues and the interface of health care and
state politics. Birenbaum-Carmeli has published extensively in
major professional journals and is the author of Tel Aviv North:
The Making of a New Israeli Middle Class (Hebrew University Press)
and the co-editor (with Marcia C. Inhorn) of Assisting
Reproduction, Testing Genes: Global Encounters with New
Biotechnologies (Berghahn Books).
Yoram S. Carmeli is an anthropologist at the University of
Haifa, Israel, who has researched reproductive technologies in
Israel. His other writings focus on popular culture with a
particular interest in British circuses. He has also researched
sport and consumption in Israel. Carmeli is the co-editor (with
Kalman Applbaum) of Consumption and Market Society in Israel (Berg
Publishers).
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