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by Sarah Franklin

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Thirty-five years after its initial success as a form of technologically assisted human reproduction, and five million miracle babies later, in vitro fertilization (IVF) has become a routine procedure worldwide. In Biological Relatives, Sarah Franklin explores how the normalization of IVF has changed how both technology and biology are understood. Drawing on anthropology, feminist theory, and science studies, Franklin charts the evolution of IVF from an experimental research technique into a global technological platform used for a wide variety of applications, including genetic diagnosis, livestock breeding, cloning, and stem cell research. She contends that despite its ubiquity, IVF remains a highly paradoxical technology that confirms the relative and contingent nature of biology while creating new biological relatives. Using IVF as a lens, Franklin presents a bold and lucid thesis linking technologies of gender and sex to reproductive biomedicine, contemporary bioinnovation, and the future of kinship.

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  • Title Biological Relatives: Ivf, Stem Cells, and the Future of Kinship
  • Author Sarah Franklin
  • Binding Hardback
  • Edition number 1st
  • Edition 1
  • Pages 376
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Duke University Press
  • Publication date 2013-11-15
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index
  • ISBN 9780822354857 / 0822354853
  • Weight 1.35 lbs (0.61 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.2 x 6.2 x 0.9 in (23.37 x 15.75 x 2.29 cm)
  • Themes
    • Aspects (Academic): Biotechnology Aspects
  • Category Archaeology / Anthropology
  • Library of Congress subjects Feminist anthropology, Fertilization in vitro, Human - Social
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2013018962
  • Dewey Decimal Code 618.178

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About the author

Sarah Franklin holds the Professorship in Sociology at the University of Cambridge. She is the author of Dolly Mixtures: The Remaking of Genealogy and coeditor (with Susan McKinnon) of Relative Values: Reconfiguring Kinship Studies, both also published by Duke University Press.

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