Seit vor 30 Jahren das erste »Reagenzglas- Baby« der Welt geboren wurde, haben sich In- vitro-Fertilisation (IVF) und andere Technologien »assistierter « Reproduktion weltweit verbreitet. Behandlung Suchende, Spenderinnen von Eizellen, Samenbanken und Ärzte agieren über nationale Grenzen hinweg, nicht selten entlang der Wohlstandsbruchlinien zwischen Ost und West und Nord und Süd. Die Autoren zeichnen in ethnografischen Studien die große Vielfalt lokaler Anwendungen von Reproduktionstechnologien auf vier Kontinenten nach und folgen gleichzeitig den transnationalen Routen des Medizinmarktes. Die Reproduktionsmedizin steht dabei beispielhaft für die biotechnologische Globalisierung.In the thirty-five years since the first "test-tube baby," in-vitro fertilization and other methods of reproductive assistance have become a common aspect of family life and medicine in affluent nations and, increasingly, throughout the world. How do persons seeking treatment, donors, and medical experts make use of these reproductive technologies? How in crossing borders between nations do they manage to evade legal and bioethical regulations? And how do they make sense of these new modes of making kinship against the backdrop of diverse worldviews and social settings? In bringing together a wide array of ethnographic studies this volume offers both a current snapshot of the complexity and diversity of local or national IVF-cultures and of emerging transnational forms of mobility, competition, inequality and collaboration. Reproductive technologies as global form refer to the simultaneity of replicating standards and creating differences, of displacements and reappropriations, raising a plethora of provocative questions for the future.

ContentsAcknowledgments .................................................................................9Reproductive Technologies as Global Form: Introduction ...................11Michi Knecht, Maren Klotz, Stefan BeckFive Million Miracle Babies Later: The BioculturalLegacies of IVF ...................................................................................27Sarah FranklinLocalizing In Vitro Fertilization: The Cultural Work of Encounters with Medical TechnologiesLegacies and Linkages: Episodes in the Establishment ofNew Reproductive Technologies in Contemporary Sri Lanka..............61Bob SimpsonPractitioners as Interface Agents between the Local andthe Global: The Localization of IVF in Turkey ....................................81Zeynep B. GürtinMaking Connections: Reflecting on Trains, Kinship, andInformation Technology....................................................................111Maren KlotzNational Styles of Reproductive Governance and Global FormsThe Other Mother: Supplementary Wombs and theSurrogate State in India .....................................................................139Aditya BharadwajAssisted Reproductive Technologies in Mali:Asymmetries and Frictions ................................................................161Viola HorbstConcerned Groups in the Field of ReproductiveTechnologies: A Turkish Case Study .................................................197Nurhak PolatTracing Transnational Scapes of Reproductive Technologies: Emergent Forms and Domains of RegulationGlobalization and Gametes: Reproductive »Tourism«Islamic Bioethics, and Middle Eastern Modernity .............................229Marcia C. InhornReproducing Hungarians: Reflections on Fuzzy Boundariesin Reproductive Border Crossing.......................................................255Eva-Maria KnollWhat is Europeanization in the Field of AssistedReproductive Technologies? ..............................................................283Maren Klotz & Michi KnechtTransnational Reproductive Mobilities, Materialities, and AgenciesMaking Interferences: The Cultural Politics of TransnationalOva »Donation« ................................................................................305Michal NahmanResemblance that Matters: On Transnational AnonymizedEgg Donation in Two European IVF Clinics.....................................331Sven BergmannBiomedical Mobilities: Transnational Lab-Benches andOther Space-Effects...........................................................................357Stefan BeckNotes on Contributors ......................................................................375Index of Names and Places ................................................................381