Making Parents
Subtitle: The Ontological Choreography of Reproductive Technologies (Inside Technology)
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: June 1, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 372
ISBN-13: 9780262201568
Subjects: Infertility & fertilization; Personal & public health; Science; Family / Parenting / Childbirth; Science/Mathematics; Infertility; Science / History; History; Human reproductive technology; Philosophy; Social aspects; United States
First sentence: Shortly after we arrived in Berkeley, California, in August 2003, we discovered a sprawling CD and DVD store on Telegraph Avenue.
Description: "Assisted reproductive technology (ART) makes babies and parents at once. Drawing on science and technology studies, feminist theory, and historical and ethnographic analyses of ART clinics, Charis Thompson explores the intertwining of biological reproduction with the personal, political, and technological meanings of reproduction. She analyzes the "ontological choreography" at ART clinics - the dynamics by which technical, scientific, kinship, gender, emotional, legal, political, financial, and other matters are coordinated - using ethnographic data to address questions usually treated in the abstract.

Reproductive technologies, says Thompson, are part of the increasing tendency to turn social problems into biomedical questions and can be used as a lens to see the resulting changes in the relations between science and society."--BOOK JACKET.