Are new reproductive and genetic technologies racing ahead of a
society that is unable to establish limits to their use? Have the
"new genetics" outpaced our ability to control their future
applications? This book examines the case of preimplantation
genetic diagnosis (PGD), the procedure used to prevent serious
genetic disease by embryo selection, and the so-called "designer
baby" method. Using detailed empirical evidence, the authors show
that far from being a runaway technology, the regulation of PGD
over the past fifteen years provides an example of precaution and
restraint, as well as continual adaptation to changing social
circumstances. Through interviews, media and policy analysis, and
participant observation at two PGD centers in the United Kingdom,
"Born and Made" provides an in-depth sociological examination of
the competing moral obligations that define the experience of
PGD.
Among the many novel findings of this pathbreaking ethnography
of reproductive biomedicine is the prominence of uncertainty and
ambivalence among PGD patients and professionals--a finding
characteristic of the emerging "biosociety," in which scientific
progress is inherently paradoxical and contradictory. In contrast
to much of the speculative futurology that defines this field,
"Born and Made" provides a timely and revealing case study of the
on-the-ground decision-making that shapes technological assistance
to human heredity.
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