03751nam 2200649Ia 450 991080859220332120200520144314.01-280-49196-597866135871900-520-95225-110.1525/9780520952256(CKB)2670000000180403(EBL)903398(OCoLC)793166639(SSID)ssj0000635958(PQKBManifestationID)11941557(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000635958(PQKBWorkID)10660273(PQKB)11752517(DE-B1597)520022(DE-B1597)9780520952256(MiAaPQ)EBC903398(EXLCZ)99267000000018040320120123d2012 ub 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrGod's laboratory assisted reproduction in the Andes /Elizabeth F.S. Roberts1st ed.Berkeley University of California Pressc20121 online resource (301 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-520-27082-7 Includes bibliographical references and index.Frontmatter --Contents --List of Illustrations --Acknowledgments --Cast of Characters --Preface --Introduction: Reproductive Assistance --Corporeal Punishment: Sandra --1. Private Medicine and the Law of Life --Crazy for Bingo: Consuelo --2. Assisted Whiteness --Yo Soy Teresa la Fea/Ugly Teresa --3. White Beauty: Gamete Donation in a Mestizo Nation --When Blood Calls: Frida and Anabela --4. Egg Economies and the Traffic between Women --Abandonment: Vanessa --5. On Ice: Embryo Destinies --Conclusion: Care-Worthy --Notes --References --IndexAssisted reproduction, with its test tubes, injections, and gamete donors, raises concerns about the nature of life and kinship. Yet these concerns do not take the same shape around the world. In this innovative ethnography of in vitro fertilization in Ecuador, Elizabeth F.S. Roberts explores how reproduction by way of biotechnological assistance is not only accepted but embraced despite widespread poverty and condemnation from the Catholic Church. Roberts' intimate portrait of IVF practitioners and their patients reveals how technological intervention is folded into an Andean understanding of reproduction as always assisted, whether through kin or God. She argues that the Ecuadorian incarnation of reproductive technology is less about a national desire for modernity than it is a product of colonial racial history, Catholic practice, and kinship configurations. God's Laboratory offers a grounded introduction to critical debates in medical anthropology and science studies, as well as a nuanced ethnography of the interplay between science, religion, race and history in the formation of Andean families.Fertilization in vitro, HumanReligious aspectsCatholic ChurchHuman reproductive technologyAndes RegionHuman reproductive technologyEcuadorMedical anthropologyAndes RegionMedical anthropologyEcuadorFertilization in vitro, HumanReligious aspectsCatholic Church.Human reproductive technologyHuman reproductive technologyMedical anthropologyMedical anthropology616.6/920609866Roberts Elizabeth F. S.1970-1752023MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910808592203321God's laboratory4187208UNINA