God's Laboratory

Assisted Reproduction in the Andes

Häftad, Engelska, 2012

AvElizabeth F. S. Roberts

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Assisted reproduction, with its test tubes, injections, and gamete donors, raises concerns about the nature of life and kinship. Yet these concerns do not take the same shape around the world. In this innovative ethnography of in vitro fertilization in Ecuador, Elizabeth F.S. Roberts explores how reproduction by way of biotechnological assistance is not only accepted but embraced despite widespread poverty and condemnation from the Catholic Church. Roberts' intimate portrait of IVF practitioners and their patients reveals how technological intervention is folded into an Andean understanding of reproduction as always assisted, whether through kin or God. She argues that the Ecuadorian incarnation of reproductive technology is less about a national desire for modernity than it is a product of colonial racial history, Catholic practice, and kinship configurations. God's Laboratory offers a grounded introduction to critical debates in medical anthropology and science studies, as well as a nuanced ethnography of the interplay between science, religion, race and history in the formation of Andean families.

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Utgivningsdatum2012-05-25
Mått152 x 229 x 23 mm
Vikt408 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor298
FörlagUniversity of California Press
ISBN9780520270831

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List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Cast of Characters Preface Introduction: Reproductive Assistance Corporeal Punishment: Sandra 1. Private Medicine and the Law of Life Crazy for Bingo: Consuelo 2. Assisted Whiteness Yo Soy Teresa la Fea/Ugly Teresa 3. White Beauty: Gamete Donation in a Mestizo Nation When Blood Calls: Frida and Anabela 4. Egg Economies and the Traffic between Women Abandonment: Vanessa 5. On Ice: Embryo Destinies Conclusion: Care-Worthy Notes References Index

"Based on field research Elizabeth F. S. Roberts conducted between 2000 and 2007, God's Laboratory is a gloriously rich ethnographic account of the experience of infertility and Ecuador's assisted reproductive technology industry. . . . A masterful work of scrupulous research offering deep and original analyses illustrated with beautiful ethnographic material. Its depth and subtlety make it among the most exciting new research in the anthropology of reproduction . . . Roberts's monograph will be of great interest to scholars, graduate students, and advanced undergraduates in classes on social and medical anthropology, sociology, gender studies, Latin American studies, international development studies, population studies, and public health."