Kin, Gene, Community: Reproductive Technologies among Jewish Israelis (Fertility, Reproduction and Sexuality: Social and Cultural Perspectives, 19)

ISBN 10: 1845456882 / ISBN 13: 9781845456887

Verlag: Berghahn Books, 2010

Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 57046

Inhaltsangabe:

Israel is the only country in the world that offers free fertility treatments to nearly any woman who requires medical assistance. It also has the world's highest per capita usage of in-vitro fertilization. Examining state policies and the application of reproductive technologies among Jewish Israelis, this volume explores the role of tradition and politics in the construction of families within local Jewish populations. The contributors-anthropologists, bioethicists, jurists, physicians and biologists-highlight the complexities surrounding these treatments and show how biological relatedness is being construed as a technology of power; how genetics is woven into the production of identities; how reproductive technologies enhance the policing of boundaries. Donor insemination, IVF and surrogacy, as well as abortion, pre-implantation genetic diagnosis and human embryonic stem cell research, are explored within local and global contexts to convey an informed perspective on the wider Jewish Israeli environment.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor:

Yoram S. Carmeli is an anthropologist at the University of Haifa, Israel, who has researched reproductive technologies in Israel. His other writings focus on popular culture with a particular interest in British circuses. He has also researched sport and consumption in Israel. Carmeli is the co-editor (with Kalman Applbaum) of Consumption and Market Society in Israel (Berg Publishers).

Bibliografische Details

Titel: Kin, Gene, Community: Reproductive ...
Verlag: Berghahn Books
Erscheinungsdatum: 2010
Einband: library
Zustand: New