On Having an Own Child : reproductive technologies and the cultural construction of childhood

On Having an Own Child : reproductive technologies and the cultural construction of childhood 
by Karin Lesnik-Oberstein 
Language: English 
[S.l.] : Routledge, 2019. 
xxiv, 199 pages ; 23 cm. 
ISBN: 9781855755451 ; 1855755459 
Summary: "This is the first book ever to consider in-depth why people want children, and specifically why people want children produced by reproductive technologies (such as IVF, ICSI, etc). As the book demonstrates, even books ostensibly devoted to the topic of why people want children and the reasons for using reproductive technologies tend to start with the assumption that this is either simply a biological drive to reproduce or a socially instilled desire. This book uses psychoanalysis not to provide an answer in its own right, but as an analytic tool to probe more deeply the problems of these assumptions. The idea that reproductive technologies simply supply an 'own' child is questioned in this volume in terms of asking how and why reproductive technologies are seen to create this 'ownness'."--Jacket. 
Available: https://www.amazon.com/Having-Own-Child-Reproductive-Technologies/dp/0367325772
Subjects:

• Parenthood -- Psychological aspects
• Human reproductive technology -- Social aspects
• Human reproductive technology -- Psychological aspects
• Parenthood -- Social aspects

Art of Making Children : the new world of assisted reproductive technology

Art of Making Children : the new world of assisted reproductive technology 
by Francois Ansermet 
Language: English 
[S.l.] : Routledge, 2019. 
208 p. 
ISBN: 0367327511 ; 9780367327514 
Summary: This book explores the issues that surround medically assisted reproduction. It addresses the place of destiny, including how to think about individual destinies in an age of increasingly accessible gene sequencing paired with a growing link between procreation and prediction. 
Available: https://www.amazon.com/Art-Making-Children-Reproductive-Technology/dp/1782204741/
Subjects: 

• Human reproductive technology

The pursuit of parenthood : reproductive technology from IVF to uterus transplants

The pursuit of parenthood : reproductive technology from IVF to uterus transplants 
by Margaret S. Marsh; Wanda Ronner 
Language: English 
Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, [2019]. 
288 p. 
ISBN: 9781421429847 ; 1421429845 
Summary: Since the 1978 birth of the first IVF baby, Louise Brown, in England, more than eight million children have been born with the help of assisted reproductive technologies. From the start, they have stirred controversy and raised profound questions: Should there be limits to the lengths to which people can go to make their idea of family a reality? Who should pay for treatment? How can we ensure the ethical use of these technologies? And what can be done to address the racial and economic disparities in access to care that enable some to have children while others go without? In The Pursuit of Parenthood, historian Margaret Marsh and gynecologist Wanda Ronner seek to answer these challenging questions. Bringing their unique expertise in gender history and women's health to the subject, Marsh and Ronner examine the unprecedented means―liberating for some and deeply unsettling for others―by which families can now be created. Beginning with the early efforts to create embryos outside a woman's body and ending with such new developments as mitochondrial replacement techniques and uterus transplants, the authors assess the impact of contemporary reproductive technology in the United States. In this volume, we meet the scientists and physicians who have developed these technologies and the women and men who have used them. Along the way, the book dispels a number of fertility myths, offers policy recommendations that are intended to bring clarity and judgment to this complicated medical history, and reveals why the United States is still known as the "Wild West" of reproductive medicine. 
Available: https://www.amazon.com/Pursuit-Parenthood-Reproductive-Technology-Transplants/dp/1421429845/
Subjects:

• Infertility -- History
• Fertilization in Vitro -- History
• Reproductive techniques, Assisted -- History

Infertility and non-traditional family building : from assisted reproduction to adoption in the media

Infertility and non-traditional family building : from assisted reproduction to adoption in the media
by Rebecca Feasey
Language: English
Cham : Palgrave Macmillan, [2019] ©2019.
ix, 276 pages ; 22 cm.
ISBN: 3030177866 ; 9783030177867
Summary: This book examines the representation of infertility, assisted reproduction, miscarriage, adoption and surrogacy in a wide range of media, including blogs, vlogs, social media posts and factual programming.
Available: https://www.amazon.com/Infertility-Non-Traditional-Family-Building-Reproduction/dp/3030177866/
Subjects:

• Infertility -- Social aspects
• Human reproductive technology -- Social aspects
• Adoption -- Social aspects
• Family planning in mass media

Romancing the sperm : shifting biopolitics and the making of modern families

Romancing the sperm : shifting biopolitics and the making of modern families 
by Diane Tober 
Language: English 
New Brunswick, Camden, and Newark, New Jersey : Rutgers University Press, [2019]. 
xv, 220 pages ; 23 cm. 
ISBN: 0813590787 ; 0813590795 
Summary: The 1990s marked a new era in family formation. Increased access to donor sperm enabled single women and lesbian couples to create their families on their own terms, outside the bounds of heterosexual married relationships. However, emerging "alternative" families were not without social and political controversy. Women who chose to have children without male partners faced many challenges in their quest to have children. Despite current wider social acceptance of single people and same sex couples becoming parents, many of these challenges continue. In Romancing the Sperm, Diane Tober explores the intersections between sperm donation and the broader social and political environment in which "modern families" are created and regulated. Through tangible and intimate stories, this book provides a captivating read for anyone interested in family and kinship, genetics and eugenics, and how ever-expanding assisted reproductive technologies continue to redefine what it means to be human. 
Available: https://www.amazon.com/Romancing-Sperm-Shifting-Biopolitics-Families/dp/0813590795
Subjects:

• Artificial insemination -- Social aspects
• Families
• Single mothers
• Lesbian mothers
• Human reproductive technology -- Social aspects

Adoption and assisted reproduction in Germany : legal framework and current issues

Adoption and assisted reproduction in Germany : legal framework and current issues 
by Saskia Lettmaier 
Language: English 
Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2019]. 
vi, 55 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. 
ISBN: 9789004339811 ; 9004339817 
Summary: In Germany, as elsewhere, couples and individuals suffering from unwanted childlessness have two principal means to overcome it. One, adoption, has existed and been quite heavily regulated in Germany for centuries. The other, assisted reproduction, has only recently come into its own with advances in medical technology and has not yet been comprehensively dealt with by the German legislature. This monograph provides a survey of adoption and assisted reproduction as an alternative (non-coital) ways of establishing parent-child relationships in Germany. 
Available: https://www.amazon.com/Adoption-Assisted-Reproduction-Research-Perspectives/dp/9004339817/
Subjects:

• Adoption -- Law and legislation -- Germany
• Human reproductive technology - Law and legislation -- Germany

Random families : genetic strangers, sperm donor siblings, and the creation of new kin

Random families : genetic strangers, sperm donor siblings, and the creation of new kin 
by Rosanna Hertz; Margaret K. Nelson 
Language: English 
New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2019]. 
296 p. : il. ; 24 cm. 
ISBN: 9780190888275 ; 019088827X 
Summary: The ready availability of donated sperm and eggs has made possible an entirely new form of family. Children of the same donor and their families, with the help of the internet, can now locate each other and make contact. Sometimes this network of families forms meaningful connections that blossom into longstanding groups and close friendships. This book is about unprecedented families that have grown up at the intersection of new reproductive technologies, social media and the human desire for belonging. Random Families asks: Do shared genes make you a family? What do couples do when they discover that their children share half their DNA with a dozen or more other offspring from the same sperm donor? What do kids find in common with their donor siblings? What becomes of these chance networks once parents and donor siblings find one another? Based on over 350 interviews with children (ages 10-28) and their parents from all over the U.S., Random Families chronicles the chain of choices that couples and single mothers make from what donor to use to how to participate (or not) in donor sibling networks. Children reveal their understanding of a donor, the donor's spot on the family tree and the meaning of their donor siblings. Through rich first-person accounts of network membership, the book illustrates how these extraordinary relationships -- woven from bits of online information and shared genetic ties -- are transformed into new possibilities for kinship. 
Available: https://www.amazon.com/Random-Families-Strangers-Siblings-Creation/dp/019088827X/
Subjects:

• Kinship
• Families
• Human reproductive technology -- Social aspects -- United States
• Children of sperm donors -- United States

Reproductive geographies : bodies, places and politics

Reproductive geographies : bodies, places and politics 
edited by Marcia R. England; Maria Fannin; Helen Hazen
Language: English 
Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2019. ©2019. 
x, 229 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. 
ISBN: 9780815386193 ; 0815386192 
Summary: The sites, spaces, and subjects of reproduction are distinctly geographical. Reproductive geographies span different scales--body, home, local, national, global--and movements across space. This book expands our understanding of the socio-cultural and spatial aspects of fertility, pregnancy, and birth. The chapters directly address global perspectives, the future of reproductive politics and state-focused approaches to the politicization of fertility, pregnancy, and birth. The book provides up-to-date explorations on the changing landscapes of reproduction, including the expansion of reproductive technologies, such as surrogacy and intrauterine insemination. Contributions in this book focus on phenomenologically inspired accounts of women's lived experience of pregnancy and birth, the biopolitics of birth and citizenship, the material histories of reproductive tissues as "scientific objects" and engagements with public health and development policy. 
Available: https://www.amazon.com/Reproductive-Geographies-Politics-Routledge-International/dp/0815386192/ 
Subjects:

• Human reproduction -- Social aspects
• Human reproduction -- Political aspects
• Human reproductive technology

Psychoanalytic aspects of assisted reproductive technology

Psychoanalytic aspects of assisted reproductive technology 
by Mali Mann 
Language: English 
[S.l.] : Routledge, 2019. 
1 volume ; 23 cm. 
ISBN: 0367325985 ; 9780367325985 
Summary: This book stems from the author's clinical experience working with infertile women in psychotherapy and psychoanalysis. It highlights the crucial importance of the integrative work of psychotherapists and psychoanalysts with reproductive medicine specialists in assisted reproductive technology (ART). 
Available: https://www.amazon.com/Psychoanalytic-Aspects-Assisted-Reproductive-Technology/dp/1780491964/
Subjects:

• Human Reproductive technology -- Social aspects
• Human reproductive technology - Psychological aspects
• Psychoanalysis

Assisted Reproduction : conceptions, controversies,and community sentiment

Assisted Reproduction : conceptions, controversies, and community sentiment 
by Alexandra E. Sigillo; Monica K. Miller
Language: English 
Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2019. 
1 volume : illustrations (black and white) ; 23 cm. 
ISBN: 1498557910 ; 9781498557917 
Summary: Assisted reproductive technology (ART) allows people who are infertile the opportunity to conceive children and form much-desired families. Over the past few decades, the number of ART procedures conducted in the United States has steadily increased, in part affected by the growing number of women trying to conceive later in their reproductive lives. This demographic shift in baby-making has widened to include a variety of other people who experience social infertility, from single persons to same-sex couples. Media exposure and political attention to the use of ART have aroused public concern and controversy. In Assisted Reproduction, Alexandra E. Sigillo and Monica K. Miller explore how media, personal differences, societal influences, and psychological processes shape community sentiment toward ART and ART-related laws and policies. This book is recommended for students and scholars of psychology, sociology, gender and women’s studies, communication studies, public health, and legal studies. 
Available: https://www.amazon.com/Assisted-Reproduction-Conceptions-Controversies-Perspectives/dp/1498557910
Subjects:

• Human reproductive technology -- Social aspects
• Human reproductive technology -- Political aspects
• Human reproductive technology -- Psychological aspects
• Human reproductive technology in mass media

Transnationalising reproduction : third party conception in a globalised world

Transnationalising reproduction : third party conception in a globalised world 
by Róisín Ryan-Flood; Jenny Gunnarsson Payne; 
Language: English 
Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2019. 
ix, 201 p. ; 25 cm. 
ISBN: 9781138840713 ; 1138840718 
Summary: Third-party conception is a growing phenomenon and provokes a burgeoning range of ethical, legal and social questions. What are the rights of donors, recipients and donor-conceived children? How are these reproductive technologies regulated? How is kinship understood within these new family forms? Written by specialists from three different continents, Transnationalising Reproduction examines a broad range of issues concerning kinship and identity, citizenship and regulation, and global markets of reproductive labour; including gamete donation and gestational surrogacy. Indeed, this book seeks to highlight how reproductive technologies not only makes possible new forms of kinship and family formations but also how these give rise to new, ethical, political and legal dilemmas about parenthood as well as new modes of discrimination and a re-distribution of medical risks. It also thoroughly investigates the ways in which commodification of reproductive tissue and labour affects the practices, representations and gendered self-understandings of gamete donors, fertility patients and intended parents in different parts of the world. With a broad geographical scope, Transnationalising Reproduction offers new empirical and theoretical perspectives on third-party conception and demonstrates the need for more transnational approaches to third-party reproduction. This volume will appeal to postgraduate students and postdoctoral researchers interested in fields such as Gender Studies, Health Care Sciences, Reproductive Technology, and Medical Sociology. 
Available: https://www.amazon.com/Transnationalising-Reproduction-Conception-Globalised-Routledge/dp/1138840718/
Subjects:

• Human reproductive technology -- Social aspects
• Surrogate motherhood
• Kinship

Assisted reproduction across borders : feminist perspectives on normalizations, disruptions and transmissions

Assisted reproduction across borders : feminist perspectives on normalizations, disruptions and transmissions 
by Merete Lie; Nina Lykke
Language: English 
London : Routledge, 2019. 
1 volume : illustrations (black and white) ; 24 cm. 
ISBN: 9780367350826 ; 0367350823 
Summary: Today, it often seems as though Assisted Reproductive Technologies (ARTs) have reached a stage of normalization, at least in some countries and among certain social groups. Apparently some practices – for example in vitro fertilization (IVF) – have become standard worldwide. The contributors to Assisted Reproduction Across Borders argue against normalization as an uncontested overall trend. This volume reflects on the state of the art of ARTs. From feminist perspectives, the contributors focus on contemporary political debates triggered by ARTs. They examine the varying ways in which ARTs are interpreted and practiced in different contexts, depending on religious, moral and political approaches. Assisted Reproduction Across Borders embeds feminist analysis of ARTs across a wide variety of countries and cultural contexts, discussing controversial practices such as surrogacy from the perspective of the global South as well as the global North as well as inequalities in terms of access to IVF. This volume will appeal to scholars and students of anthropology, ethnography, philosophy, political science, history, sociology, film studies, media studies, literature, art history, area studies, and interdisciplinary areas such as gender studies, cultural studies, and postcolonial studies. 
Available: https://www.amazon.com/Assisted-Reproduction-Across-Borders-Intersectionality/dp/1138674648/
Subjects:

• Human reproductive technology -- Social aspects
• Feminist theory

Conceiving family : a practical theology of surrogacy and self

Conceiving family : a practical theology of surrogacy and self by Danielle Elizabeth Tumminio 
Language: English 
Waco, Texas : Baylor University Press, [2019]. 
 x, 219 pages ; 24 cm. 
ISBN: 9781481310567 ; 1481310569 
Summary: Biology continues to be the most widely recognized determinant of the family in the United States and heterosexual intercourse the most common form of family creation. But what happens when children cannot be created in this way? Is it still possible to create a family? Surrogacy provides an alternative means of conception, not only to heterosexual couples who encounter infertility or reproductive loss, but also to single, same-sex, or transgender individuals who want to have children. However, surrogacy itself raises a number of concerns, arguably introducing as many difficulties as it solves. In Conceiving Family, Danielle Tumminio Hansen tackles the unnamed and unexamined problems surrounding surrogacy within a theological framework. 
Available: https://www.amazon.com/Conceiving-Family-Practical-Theology-Surrogacy/dp/1481310569/
Subjects:

• Human reproductive technology -- Religious aspects
• Human reproductive technology -- Social aspects
• Surrogate motherhood -- Moral and ethical aspects

The reproductive body at work : the South African bioeconomy of egg donation

The reproductive body at work : the South African bioeconomy of egg donation 
by Verena Namberger 
Language: English 
Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2019 ©2019. 
xviii, 210 pages 25 cm. 
ISBN: 9780367026868 ; 0367026864 
Summary: The transnational industry surrounding assisted reproductive technology and regenerative medicine is based on the unacknowledged labour of gamete providers, surrogates and research subjects, and benefits from low labour costs in ‘enabling’ sectors such as logistics and transport. This finding calls for a comprehensive analysis of how the contemporary intersection of neoliberal capitalism and the life sciences - in short, the bioeconomy - capitalises on the body and its (re)productive capacities. The Reproductive Body at Work uptakes this challenge as it explores the relations between value production, labour and the body in one particular realm of the global bioeconomy: the South African bioeconomy of ‘egg donation’. It highlights different forms and dimensions of unacknowledged or precarious human labour that are constitutive for the procurement, brokering and circulation of oocytes as valuable resources. The analysis illustrates that the respective organisation of value and labour renegotiate what ‘the’ (re)productive body can do, which status and roles it is ascribed, which cultural and economic values it signifies and how it is experienced and enacted within a matrix of intersectional power relations. 
Available: https://www.amazon.com/Reproductive-Body-Work-Bioeconomy-Intersectionality/dp/0367026864/ 
Subjects:

• Human reproductive technology -- Social aspects -- South Africa
• Human reproductive technology -- Economic aspects -- South Africa
• Infertility -- Social aspects -- South Africa

The oocyte economy : the changing meaning of human eggs

The oocyte economy : the changing meaning of human eggs 
by Cathy Waldby 
Language: English 
Durham : Duke University Press, 2019. 
viii, 239 pages ; 23 cm. 
ISBN: 9781478004110 ; 1478004118 
Summary: In recent years increasing numbers of women from wealthy countries have turned to egg donation, egg freezing, and in vitro fertilization to become pregnant, especially later in life. This trend has created new ways of using, exchanging, and understanding oocytes-the reproductive cells specific to women. In 'The Oocyte Economy' Catherine Waldby draws on 130 interviews--with scientists, clinicians, and women who have either donated or frozen their oocytes or received those of another woman--to trace how the history of human oocytes' perceived value intersects with the biological and social life of women. Demonstrating how oocytes have come to be understood as discrete and scarce biomedical objects open to valuation, management, and exchange, Waldy examines the global market for oocytes and the power dynamics between recipients and the often younger and poorer donors. With this exploration of the oocyte economy and its contemporary biopolitical significance, Waldby rethinks the relationship between fertility, gendered experience, and biomedical innovation. 
Available: https://www.amazon.com/Oocyte-Economy-Changing-Meaning-Human/dp/1478004118/
Subjects:

• Ovum
• Fertility, Human -- Social aspects
• Fertility, Human -- Economic aspects
• Human reproductive technology -- Economic aspects
• Infertility -- Treatment -- Economic aspects

Fertility, health and reproductive politics : re-imagining rights in India

Fertility, health and reproductive politics : re-imagining rights in India
by Maya Unnithan-Kumar
Language: English
Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2019.
xii, 233 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
ISBN: 1138610968 ; 9781138610965
Summary: Drawing on ethnographic research over the past eighteen years among poor Hindu and Muslim communities in Rajasthan and among development and health actors in the state, this book contributes to developing analytic perspectives on reproductive practice, agency and the body-self as particular and novel sites of vital power and politic. Rajasthan has been among the poorest states in the country with high levels of maternal and infant mortality and morbidity. The author closely examines how social and economic inequalities are produced and sustained in discursive and on the ground contexts of family-making, how authoritative knowledge and power in the domain of childbirth is exercised across a landscape of development institutions, how maternal health becomes a category of citizenship, how health-seeking is socially and emotionally determined and political in nature, how the health sector operates as a biopolitical system, and how diverse moral claims over the fertile, infertile and reproductive body-self are asserted, contested and often realized.
Available: https://www.amazon.com/Fertility-Health-Reproductive-Politics-Re-imagining/dp/1138610968
Subjects:

• Human reproduction -- Political aspects -- India
• Human reproduction -- Political aspects

Mediated kinship : gender, race and sexuality in donor families

Mediated kinship : gender, race and sexuality in donor families 
by Rikke Anassen 
Language: English 
London ; New York : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2019. ©2019. 
198 p. 
ISBN: 9781351233439 ; 1351233432 
Summary: Illustrating the fascinating intersections of online media and new kinship, this book presents a study of the increasing numbers of single women and lesbian couples reproducing by using donor sperm. It explores how they connect with each other online, develop intimate digital communities and, most importantly, locate their children’s hitherto unknown biological half-siblings, throughout the world. The author discusses how these new families - consisting of only mothers - engage in extended families involving large numbers of ‘donor siblings’. The new families challenge previous understandings of kinship, and provide illustrations of how norms of gender, sexuality and family are challenged, negotiated and maintained in contemporary times. A crucial study of contemporary formations of family, gender and race, Mediated Kinship discusses the racial aspects of the world’s largest sperm bank exporting Danish sperm (termed ‘Viking sperm’), and explores the narratives of whiteness and imagined racial superiority that circulate among mothers, as well as the racialisations accompanying commercial online sperm sales. By analysing contemporary families of donor-conceived children in the context of legislation, reproduction technologies and online media, the book will appeal to scholars across the social sciences with interests in race and ethnicity, whiteness, gender, sexuality, kinship and the sociology of the family. 
Available: https://www.amazon.com/Mediated-Kinship-Sexuality-Routledge-Sociology/dp/0815377959/
Subjects:

• Lesbian couples as parents
• Children of gay parents
• Single mothers

The Oxford handbook of reproductive ethics

The Oxford handbook of reproductive ethics 
edited by Leslie P. Francis 
Language: English 
New York : Oxford University Press, 2019. 
1 vol. (XIII-664 p.) ; 25 cm. 
ISBN: 019093333X ; 9780190933333 
Summary: Intimate and medicalized, natural and technological, reproduction poses some of the most challenging ethical dilemmas of our time. Reproduction presses the boundaries of humanity and ethical respect, the permissible limits of technology, conscientious objection by health care professionals, and social justice. This volume brings together scholars from multiple perspectives to address both traditional and novel questions about the rights and responsibilities of human reproducers, their caregivers, and the societies in which they live. Among issues treated in the volume are what it is to be a parent, the responsibilities of parents, and the role of society in facilitating or discouraging parenting. May gamete donors be anonymous? Is surrogacy in which a woman gestates a child for others ethically permissible when efforts are made to prevent coercion or exploitation? Should it be mandatory to screen newborns for potentially serious conditions, or permissible to sequence their genomes? Are both parties to a reproductive act equally responsible to support the child, even if one deceived the other? Are there ethical asymmetries between male and female parents, and is the lack of available contraceptives for men unjust? Should the costs of infertility treatment be socially shared, as they are for other forms of health care? Do parents have a duty to try to conceive children under the best circumstances they can-or to avoid conception if the child will suffer? What is the status of the fetus and what ethical limits constrain the use of fetal tissue? Reproduction is a rapidly changing medical field, with novel developments such as mitochondrial transfer or uterine transplantation occurring regularly. And there are emerging natural challenges, too, with the Zika virus just the latest. The volume gives readers tools not only to address the problems we now know but ones that may emerge in the future as well. 
Available: https://www.amazon.com/Oxford-Handbook-Reproductive-Ethics-Handbooks/dp/019093333X/
Subjects:

• Human reproductive technology -- Moral and ethical aspects
• Human reproduction -- Moral and ethical aspects

The reproductive industry : intimate experiences and global processes

The reproductive industry : intimate experiences and global processes 
edited by Sarah Ferber; Vera C. Mackie; Nicola J. Marks 
Language: English 
Lanham : Lexington Books, [2019]. 
187 p. 
ISBN: 9781498570657 ; 1498570658 
Summary: Starting in 1978, when the first babies conceived through in vitro fertilization (IVF) were born in the UK and India, assisted reproduction has become a global industry. Contributors to this edited collection reflect on the global dimensions of IVF and assisted reproductive technologies, examining how people have used these technologies to create diverse family forms, including gay, lesbian, and transgender parenthood, as well as complex configurations of genetic, gestational, and social parenthood. The authors examine how IVF and other reproductive technologies have and have not circulated around the globe; how reproductive technologies can be situated historically, nationally, locally, and culturally; and the ways in which culture, practices, regulations, norms, families, and kinship ties may be reinforced or challenged through the use of assisted reproduction. 
Available: https://www.amazon.com/Reproductive-Industry-Experiences-Perspectives-Psychology/dp/1498570658 
Subjects:

• Fertility, Human
• Human reproductive technology

Delivering policy : the contested politics of assisted reproductive technologies in Canada

Delivering policy : the contested politics of assisted reproductive technologies in Canada
by Francesca Scala
Language: English
Vancouver ; Toronto : UBC Press, [2019].
x, 242 pages ; 24 cm.
ISBN: 9780774860093 ; 077486009X
Summary: Are assisted reproductive technologies (ARTs) a medical issue or a matter of public policy, subject to restrictions? Francesca Scala employs the concept of boundary work to explain the protracted debates that ensued when Canada appointed a royal commission in 1989 to settle the issue. She reveals that both sides of the debate attempted to secure their position as authorities by challenging, defending, or blurring the boundaries between science and politics. This compelling account contributes to our understanding of the interaction between science and politics, the exercise of social control over science and technology, and the politics of expertise in policymaking.
Available: https://www.amazon.com/Delivering-Policy-Contested-Reproductive-Technologies/dp/077486009X Subjects:

• Human reproductive technology -- Law and legislation -- Canada
• Human reproductive technology -- Government policy -- Canada