Making Multiple Babies Anticipatory Regimes of Assisted Reproduction

Human beings have been producing more twins, triplets, and quadruplets than ever before, due to the expansion of medically assisted conception. This book analyzes the anticipatory regimes of making multiple babies. With archival documents, participant observation, in-depth interviews, and registry d...

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Main Author Wu, Chia-Ling
Format eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published Berghahn Books 10.02.2023
EditionNED - New edition, 1
SeriesFertility, Reproduction and Sexuality
Subjects
Anthropology
Fertilization in vitro, Human
Government policy
Health Sciences
Human reproduction, growth and development
Medicine and Nursing
Moral and ethical aspects
Pre-clinical medicine: basic sciences
Reproductive medicine
Social and cultural anthropology
Social aspects
Society and Social Sciences
Sociology and anthropology
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Summary:Human beings have been producing more twins, triplets, and quadruplets than ever before, due to the expansion of medically assisted conception. This book analyzes the anticipatory regimes of making multiple babies. With archival documents, participant observation, in-depth interviews, and registry data, this book traces the global and local governance of the assisted reproductive technologies (ARTs) used to tackle multiple pregnancy since the 1970s, highlighting the early promotion of single embryo transfer in Belgium and Japan and the making of the world's most lenient guidelines in Taiwan.
ISBN:9781800738522
1800738528
9781800738850
1800738854
DOI:10.2307/jj.2809001