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"Assisted reproduction, with its test tubes, injections, and gamete donors, often raises concerns about nature, life, and kinship. Yet these concerns do not take the same form everywhere. In this innovative ethnography of in vitro fertilization in a small South American country, Elizabeth Roberts shows that in Ecuador, having children through biotechnological intervention is not only accepted but even embraced. Roberts takes us into clinics, laboratories, and homes, providing a textured picture of the integration of these biotechnologies into Andean life, despite widespread poverty and official condemnation from the Catholic Church. Intimate portraits of patients, donors, and practitioners reveal profoundly different understandings of nature and bodies from those in the United States. The Andean understanding of the body as malleable resonates with cutting-edge theories of the material world put forth by contemporary scholars of science and technology. The Ecuadorian embrace of reproductive technology however is less a reflection of a desire to be "modern", than it is a product of colonial racial history, Catholic theologies, and kinship systems. This clearly written account offers a grounded introduction to debates in science studies and medical anthropology, as well as nuanced ethnography of the mingling of science, religion, and history in Andean family life"--
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Human reproductive technology, Medical anthropology, Catholic Church, Human Fertilization in vitro, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural, Ecuador, Andes region, Fertilization in vitro, human, Assisted Reproductive Techniques, Ethics, Medical Anthropology, Catholicism, Tissue Donors, PsychologyPlaces
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God's laboratory: assisted reproduction in the Andes
2012, University of California Press
in English
0520270827 9780520270824
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