LEADER 03865nam 2200697Ia 450 001 9911104163103321 005 20260527131417.0 010 $a9786613587190 010 $a9781280491962 010 $a1280491965 010 $a9780520952256 010 $a0520952251 024 7 $a10.1525/9780520952256 035 $a(CKB)2670000000180403 035 $a(EBL)903398 035 $a(OCoLC)793166639 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000635958 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11941557 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000635958 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10660273 035 $a(PQKB)11752517 035 $a(DE-B1597)520022 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780520952256 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC903398 035 $a(Perlego)552430 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000180403 100 $a20120123d2012 ub 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aGod's laboratory $eassisted reproduction in the Andes /$fElizabeth F.S. Roberts 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aBerkeley $cUniversity of California Press$dc2012 215 $a1 online resource (301 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 08$a9780520270824 311 08$a0520270827 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFrontmatter --$tContents --$tList of Illustrations --$tAcknowledgments --$tCast of Characters --$tPreface --$tIntroduction: Reproductive Assistance --$tCorporeal Punishment: Sandra --$t1. Private Medicine and the Law of Life --$tCrazy for Bingo: Consuelo --$t2. Assisted Whiteness --$tYo Soy Teresa la Fea/Ugly Teresa --$t3. White Beauty: Gamete Donation in a Mestizo Nation --$tWhen Blood Calls: Frida and Anabela --$t4. Egg Economies and the Traffic between Women --$tAbandonment: Vanessa --$t5. On Ice: Embryo Destinies --$tConclusion: Care-Worthy --$tNotes --$tReferences --$tIndex 330 $aAssisted 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. 606 $aFertilization in vitro, Human$xReligious aspects$xCatholic Church 606 $aHuman reproductive technology$zAndes Region 606 $aHuman reproductive technology$zEcuador 606 $aMedical anthropology$zAndes Region 606 $aMedical anthropology$zEcuador 615 0$aFertilization in vitro, Human$xReligious aspects$xCatholic Church. 615 0$aHuman reproductive technology 615 0$aHuman reproductive technology 615 0$aMedical anthropology 615 0$aMedical anthropology 676 $a616.6/920609866 700 $aRoberts$b Elizabeth F. S.$f1970-$02000298 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9911104163103321 996 $aGod's laboratory$94783034 997 $aUNINA