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The Business of Being Made - The temporalities of reproductive technologies, in psychoanalysis and culture (Hardcover)
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The Business of Being Made - The temporalities of reproductive technologies, in psychoanalysis and culture (Hardcover)
Series: Genders & Sexualities in Minds & Cultures
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The Business of Being Made is the first book to critically analyze
assisted reproductive technologies (ARTs) from a transdisciplinary
perspective integrating psychoanalytic and cultural theories. It is
a ground-breaking collection exploring ARTs through diverse methods
including interview research, clinical case studies, psychoanalytic
based ethnography, and memoir. Gathering clinicians and researchers
who specialize in this area, this book engages current research in
psychoanalysis, sociology, anthropology, philosophy and debates in
feminist, queer and cultural theory about affect, temporality, and
bodies. With psychoanalysis as its fulcrum, The Business of Being
Made explores the social constructions and personal experiences of
ARTs. Katie Gentile frames the cultural context, exploring the ways
ARTs have become a complex form of playing with time, attempting to
manufacture a hopeful future in the midst of growing global
uncertainty. The contributors then present a range of varied
experiences related to ARTs, including: Interviews with women and
men undergoing ARTs; A psychoanalytic memoir of male infertility;
Clinical research and work with transgender, gay and lesbian
patients creating new Oedipal constellations, the experiences of
LBGTQ people within the medical system and the variety of families
that emerge; Research on the experiences of egg donors (now central
to the business of ARTs) and a corresponding clinical case study of
successful egg donation; The experiences of ongoing failure which
is the often unacknowledged for ART procedures; How and when people
choose to stop using ARTs; A psychoanalytic ethnography of a
neonatal intensive care unit populated in part with the babies
created through these technologies and their parents, haggard and
in shock after years of failed attempts. Full of original material,
The Business of Being Made conveys the ambivalence of these
technologies without simplifying their complicated consequences for
the bodies of individuals, the family, cultures, and our planet.
This book will be relevant to clinicians, medical and psychological
personnel working in assisted reproductive technologies and
infertility, as well as academics working in the fields of
sociology, literature, queer and feminist theories and at the
intersections of cultural, critical and psychoanalytic theories.
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