Making Multiple Babies

Anticipatory Regimes of Assisted Reproduction

Chia-Ling Wu (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

264 Seiten

2025
Berghahn Books (Verlag)
978-1-80539-748-9 (ISBN)

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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.

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.

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

Erscheinungsdatum	05.12.2024
Reihe/Serie	Fertility, Reproduction and Sexuality: Social and Cultural Perspectives
Zusatzinfo	Bibliography; Index; 29 Illustrations
Verlagsort	Oxford
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt	Studium ► 1. Studienabschnitt (Vorklinik) ► Histologie / Embryologie
ISBN-10	1-80539-748-6 / 1805397486
ISBN-13	978-1-80539-748-9 / 9781805397489
Zustand	Neuware