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Record Nr.

UNISA996552363903316

Autore

Wu Chia-Ling

Titolo

Making Multiple Babies : Anticipatory Regimes of Assisted Reproduction / / Chia-Ling Wu

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Berghahn Books, , 2022

©2023

ISBN

9781800738850

Edizione

[First edition.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (266 pages)

Collana

Fertility, Reproduction and Sexuality: Social and Cultural Perspectives ; ; 52.

Disciplina

618.1780599

Soggetti

Fertilization in vitro, Human

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Multiple embryo transfer: anticipating success and risk -- eSET: anticipating new success and re-networking IVF -- When IVF became a nationalist glory -- The making of the world's most lenient guideline -- Optimization within disrupted reproduction -- Women encounter fetal reduction -- An-Tai: active maternal body work.

Sommario/riassunto

"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 data, this book traces the global and local governance of the assisted reproductive technologies (ARTs) used to tackle multiple pregnancy since the 1970s, highlighting the early promotion of single embryo transfer in Belgium and Japan and the making of the world's most lenient guidelines in Taiwan"--