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Embodied Progress


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This new edition of Sarah Franklin's classic monograph on the development of IVF includes two entirely new chapters reflecting on the relevance of the book's findings in the context of the past two decades and providing a 'state of the art' review of the field today.

Over the past 25 years, both the assisted conception industry and the academic field of reproductive studies have grown enormously. IVF, in particular, is belatedly becoming recognised as one of the most influential technologies of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, with a far-reaching set of implications that have to date been underestimated, understudied and under-reported. This pioneering text was the first to explore the emergence of IVF technology in the UK. Developed in the UK, the country enacted the only comprehensive national regulation of assisted reproduction as use of the technology became widespread. Franklin chronicles these developments and explores their significance in relation to classic anthropological debates about the meanings of kinship, gender, and parenthood. Drawing on extensive personal interviews with women undergoing IVF, the book explores their reasons for choosing the technique, their experiences of the 'topsy-turvy' world of IVF, and how the experience of undergoing IVF changes them in ways they had not anticipated. It argues that such experiences reveal a feature of translational biomedical procedures more widely, namely that these are 'hope technologies' that reveal the generation of new uncertainties and risks in the very space of their supposed resolution. The final chapter closely engages with the 'hope technology' concept, as well as the idea of 'having to try' and uses these frames to link contemporary reproductive studies to core sociological and anthropological arguments about economy, society and technology.

Even more relevant today, in the context of rapid fertility decline and huge growth in the fertility industry, this book is an essential read for all social science academics and students with an interested in reproduction, kinship, and science and technology. It is also a valuable resource for practitioners working in the field of reproductive health.


About the Author: Sarah Franklin is Professor of Sociology and Director of the Reproductive Sociology Research Group at the University of Cambridge, UK. She is also a Wellcome Trust Senior Investigator, co-editor of Reproductive Biomedicine and Society, and Chair of the Anne McLaren Trust.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781032256696
  • Publisher: Taylor & Francis
  • Publisher Imprint: Routledge
  • Height: 233 mm
  • No of Pages: 320
  • Spine Width: 0 mm
  • Weight: 594 gr
  • ISBN-10: 1032256699
  • Publisher Date: 21 Oct 2022
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Sub Title: A Cultural Account of Assisted Conception
  • Width: 156 mm


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