Sex cells [[electronic resource] ] : the medical market for eggs and sperm / / Rene Almeling

• Autore: Almeling Rene <1977->
• Pubblicazione: Berkeley, : University of California Press, 2011
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (240 p.)
• Disciplina: 381/.45618178
• Soggetto topico: Artificial insemination, Human - Economic aspects; Artificial insemination, Human - Moral and ethical aspects; Infertility - Treatment - Economic aspects; Surrogate motherhood - Economic aspects
• Soggetto non controllato: 21st century medicine; anthropology and health; creating a family; economic sociology; egg agencies; egg donation; egg donors; ethics and reproductive medicine; gender studies; genetic donor; genetic material; health and ethics; history of medicine; in vitro fertilization; infertility; medical sociology; medicine and business; motherhood and fatherhood; parenthood; reproductive medicine and technology; reproductive strategies; sociology of marriage and family; sperm banks; sperm donation; sperm donors
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part One. Organizing the Market -- Part Two. Experiencing the Market -- Appendix A: Egg and Sperm Donors' Characteristics at Time of Interview -- Appendix B: Demographics of Donors Based on Profiles at Egg and Sperm Donation Programs -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
• Sommario/riassunto: Unimaginable until the twentieth century, the clinical practice of transferring eggs and sperm from body to body is now the basis of a bustling market. In Sex Cells, Rene Almeling provides an inside look at how egg agencies and sperm banks do business. Although both men and women are usually drawn to donation for financial reasons, Almeling finds that clinics encourage sperm donors to think of the payments as remuneration for an easy "job." Women receive more money but are urged to regard egg donation in feminine terms, as the ultimate "gift" from one woman to another. Sex Cells shows how the gendered framing of paid donation, as either a job or a gift, not only influences the structure of the market, but also profoundly affects the individuals whose genetic material is being purchased.
• Titolo autorizzato: Sex cells
• ISBN: 1-283-27846-4; 9786613278463; 0-520-95022-4
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910781458203321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II