Beschreibung:
Sarah Franklin holds the Professorship in Sociology at the University of Cambridge. She is the author of Dolly Mixtures: The Remaking of Genealogy and coeditor (with Susan McKinnon) of Relative Values: Reconfiguring Kinship Studies, both also published by Duke University Press.
Sarah Franklin explores the history and future of in vitro fertilization (IVF) thirty-five years and five million babies after its initial success as a form of technologically-assisted human reproduction.
Acknowledgments ixIntroduction. Relatively Biological 11. Miracle Babies 312. Living Tools 683. Embryo Pioneers 1024. Reproductive Technologies 1505. Living IVF 1856. IVF Live 2217. Frontier Culture 2588. After IVF 297Afterword 311Notes 313References 333Index 351