Kin, Gene, Community: Reproductive Technologies Among Jewish Israelis

 
9781845456887: Kin, Gene, Community: Reproductive Technologies Among Jewish Israelis
ISBN 10 : 1845456882 ISBN 13 : 9781845456887
Editeur : Berghahn Books, 2010

Synopsis

Israel is the only country in the world that offers free fertility treatments to nearly any woman who requires medical assistance. It also has the world's highest per capita usage of in-vitro fertilization. Examining state policies and the application of reproductive technologies among Jewish Israelis, this volume explores the role of tradition and politics in the construction of families within local Jewish populations. The contributors--anthropologists, bioethicists, jurists, physicians and biologists--highlight the complexities surrounding these treatments and show how biological relatedness is being construed as a technology of power; how genetics is woven into the production of identities; how reproductive technologies enhance the policing of boundaries. Donor insemination, IVF and surrogacy, as well as abortion, pre-implantation genetic diagnosis and human embryonic stem cell research, are explored within local and global contexts to convey an informed perspective on the wider Jewish Israeli environment.

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À propos des auteurs

Daphna Birenbaum-Carmeli is a medical sociologist at the University of Haifa, Israel. Her research concentrates on reproduction-related issues and the interface of health care and state politics. Birenbaum-Carmeli has published extensively in major professional journals and is the author of Tel Aviv North: The Making of a New Israeli Middle Class (Hebrew University Press) and the co-editor (with Marcia C. Inhorn) of Assisting Reproduction, Testing Genes: Global Encounters with New Biotechnologies (Berghahn Books).



Yoram S. Carmeli is an anthropologist at the University of Haifa, Israel, who has researched reproductive technologies in Israel. His other writings focus on popular culture with a particular interest in British circuses. He has also researched sport and consumption in Israel. Carmeli is the co-editor (with Kalman Applbaum) of Consumption and Market Society in Israel (Berg Publishers).

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Éditeur
Berghahn Books
Date d'édition
2010
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1845456882
ISBN 13 
9781845456887
Reliure
Belle reliure
Nombre de pages
344
Éditeur
Birenbaum-Carmeli Daphna, Carmeli Yoram S.
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Personne responsable
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