Making Multiple Babies: Anticipatory Regimes of Assisted Reproduction

by Chia-Ling Wu

Overview

Human beings have been producing more twins, triplets, and quadruplets than ever before, due to the expansion of medically assisted conception. This book analyzes the anticipatory regimes of making multiple babies. With archival documents, participant observation, in-depth interviews, and registry data, this book traces the global and local governance of the assisted reproductive technologies (ARTs) used to tackle multiple pregnancy since the 1970s, highlighting the early promotion of single embryo transfer in Belgium and Japan and the making of the world’s most lenient guidelines in Taiwan.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781800738522
Publisher:	Berghahn Books
Publication date:	02/10/2023
Series:	Fertility, Reproduction and Sexuality: Social and Cultural Perspectives , #52
Pages:	264
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.10(h) x 0.80(d)

About the Author

Chia-Ling Wu is Professor of Sociology at the National Taiwan University. She has served as the editor-in-chief of East Asian Science, Technology and Society (EASTS), Journal of Women’s and Gender Studies, and Taiwanese Sociology. She co-founded Birth Reform Alliance in Taiwan, an NGO aiming to establish better reproductive care in Taiwan.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
List of Abbreviations

Introduction

Chapter 1. Multiple Embryo Transfer: Anticipating Success and Risk
Chapter 2. eSET: Anticipating New Success and Re-Networking IVF
Chapter 3. When IVF Became a Nationalist Glory
Chapter 4. The Making of the World’s Most Lenient Guideline
Chapter 5. Optimization within Disrupted Reproduction
Chapter 6. Women Encounter Fetal Reduction
Chapter 7. An-Tai: Active Maternal Body Work

Conclusion

References
Index

Editorial Reviews

“This book is a fascinating and insightful read … The author presents the concept of "anticipatory governance" as a means of exploring the evolving regulation of IVF. This is very useful and something I will certainly apply in my own work.” • Andrea Whittaker, Monash University

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