Research Catalog

Title

Nameless relations : anonymity, Melanesia and reproductive gift exchange between British ova donors and recipients / Monica Konrad.

Author

Konrad, Monica.

Publication

New York : Berghahn Books, 2005.

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Details

Description

xvii, 286 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.

Summary

"Based on the author's fieldwork at assisted conception clinics in England in the mid-1990s, this is the first ethnographic study of the new procreative practices of anonymous ova and embryo donation. Giving voice to both groups of women participating in the demanding donation experience - the donors on the one side and the ever-hopeful IVF recipients on the other - Monica Konrad shows how one dimension of the new reproductive technologies involves an unfamiliar relatedness between nameless and untraceable procreative strangers. The book challenges some of the basic assumptions underlying conventional biomedical discourse of altruistic donation that clinicians and others promote as "gifts of life." It brings together a wide variety of literatures from social anthropology, social theory, cultural studies of science and technology, and feminist bioethics to discuss the relationship between recent developments in biotechnology and changing conceptions of personal origins, genealogy, kinship, biological ownership and notions of bodily integrity."--Jacket.

Series Statement

Fertility, reproduction, and sexuality ; v. 7

Uniform Title

Fertility, reproduction, and sexuality ; v. 7.

Subject

• Artificial insemination, Human > Social aspects
• Artificial insemination, Human > Great Britain
• Kula exchange
• Confidential communications
• Cross-cultural studies
• Confidentiality
• Oocyte Donation > psychology
• Cross-Cultural Comparison
• Interpersonal Relations
• Women > psychology
• 44.92 gynecology and obstetrics
• Cross-cultural studies
• Confidential communications
• Artificial insemination, Human
• Artificial insemination, Human > Social aspects
• Kula exchange
• Zwischenmenschliche Beziehung
• Kula Tauschhandel
• Sozialanthropologie
• Insemination
• Anonymität
• Grants
• Artificial reproduction
• Anonymity
• Social aspects
• United Kingdom
• Melanesia
• Great Britain
• United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

Genre/Form

• Interview
• interviews.
• Interviews
• Interviews.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [259]-274) and index.

Contents

pt. I. secrets in the gift -- 1. What is concealed inside an anonymously donated gamete? -- 2. Anonymity and the way of juxtaposition -- pt. II. In the name of the un-named -- 3. Donors I -- 4. Donors II -- 5. Donors III -- 6. Recipients I -- 7. Recipients II -- 8. Recipients III -- pt. III. Applications -- 9. Unconcealing extensional transilience -- 10. Unconcealing regenerative transilience -- 11. Conclusion : relations of non-relations -- App. I. Donor biographical profiles -- App. II. Recipient biographical profiles -- App. III. Treatment protocol.

ISBN

• 9781571816474
• 157181647X
• 184545040X
• 9781845450403

LCCN

2004055426

OCLC

• ocm56799615
• 56799615
• SCSB-1388513

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library