"Konrad has produced an exceptionally interesting and totally
original book . . . a major contribution to social theory." .
Marilyn Strathern, Cambridge University Based on the author's
fieldwork at assisted conception clinics in England in the
mid-1990s, this is the first ethnographic study of the new
procreative practices of anonymous ova and embryo donation. Giving
voice to both groups of women participating in the demanding
donation experience - the donors on the one side and the
ever-hopeful IVF recipients on the other - Konrad shows how one
dimension of the new reproductive technologies involves an
unfamiliar relatedness between nameless and untraceable procreative
strangers. Offsetting informants' local narratives against
traditional Western folk models of the 'sexed' reproductive body,
the book challenges some of the basic assumptions underlying
conventional biomedical discourse of altruistic donation that
clinicians and others promote as "gifts of life." It brings
together a wide variety of literatures from social anthropology,
social theory, cultural studies of science and technology, and
feminist bioethics to discuss the relationship between recent
developments in biotechnology and changing conceptions of personal
origins, genealogy, kinship, biological ownership and notions of
bodily integrity.
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