ANTHRCUL 325 Lecture Notes - Lecture 31: Artificial Insemination, Fertility Clinic, Surrogacy

• School: U of M
• Department: Anthropology, Cultural
• Course: ANTHRCUL 325
• Professor: J. Henrike Florusbosch

Document Summary

Stress on kinship obligations to the embryos - this is where ethics come in, in. "a complex kind of reproductive agency informs these pathways to pregnancy. " also (cid:271)e(cid:374)efit(cid:894)s(cid:895) fro(cid:373) a se(cid:272)ular so(cid:272)ial (cid:272)li(cid:373)ate i(cid:374) (cid:449)hi(cid:272)h the traditio(cid:374)al stig(cid:373)a asso(cid:272)iated (cid:449)ith out-of-wedlock births has ceased to retain its negative force. : your turn: relatedness in kahn"s continuum of conception. Selecting a fertility clinic as site of conception: choosing to get pregnant through artificial insemination, undergoing screening for unmarried mothers-to-be, postnatal concerns, including circumcision, family support, narrating absence. "traditional" quito - kin ethics, but genetic reasoning. "life ethics: cryopreservation: ethics and concerns, us: example of christian definition of frozen embryos as life - life ethic. "no such thing as a spare embryo" - gw bush. "affordances" of certain discourses/understandings: creating terms of the debate and making circulation/transfer/exchange possible or not possible. Inhorn, islam and arts in the middle east.