Making Multiple Babies Anticipatory Regimes of Assisted Reproduction

• Main Author: Wu, Chia-Ling
• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berghahn Books 10.02.2023
• Edition: NED - New edition, 1
• Series: Fertility, 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

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...