TY - CHAP
T1 - Assisted reproductive technologies and culture change
AU - Inhorn, Marcia C.
AU - Birenbaum-Carmeli, Daphna
PY - 2008
Y1 - 2008
N2 - In 1978, the world's first "test-tube" baby was born via in vitro fertilization (IVF). The past 30 years have seen the rapid evolution of many other assisted reproductive technologies (ARTs) - some are simple variants of IVF, whereas others bridge the fields of assisted reproduction and human genomics. As ARTs have evolved over time, so have social, cultural, legal, and ethical responses to them. Indeed, ARTs are a key symbol of our times, representing the growing prominence of biotechnologies in the configuration of individual, familial, and collective identities around the globe. This review highlights the scholarship of more than 50 anthropologists who are studying the effects of ARTs in many areas of social life, including the traditional anthropological domains of kinship, marriage, and the family, gender, religion, and biomedicine. Their research bespeaks both the destabilizing and the generative impacts of ARTs at the interface between science and society.
AB - In 1978, the world's first "test-tube" baby was born via in vitro fertilization (IVF). The past 30 years have seen the rapid evolution of many other assisted reproductive technologies (ARTs) - some are simple variants of IVF, whereas others bridge the fields of assisted reproduction and human genomics. As ARTs have evolved over time, so have social, cultural, legal, and ethical responses to them. Indeed, ARTs are a key symbol of our times, representing the growing prominence of biotechnologies in the configuration of individual, familial, and collective identities around the globe. This review highlights the scholarship of more than 50 anthropologists who are studying the effects of ARTs in many areas of social life, including the traditional anthropological domains of kinship, marriage, and the family, gender, religion, and biomedicine. Their research bespeaks both the destabilizing and the generative impacts of ARTs at the interface between science and society.
KW - Ethics
KW - Gender
KW - Globalization
KW - Infertility
KW - Kinship
KW - Religion
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=55349132418&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1146/annurev.anthro.37.081407.085230
DO - 10.1146/annurev.anthro.37.081407.085230
M3 - Chapter
AN - SCOPUS:55349132418
SN - 9780824319373
T3 - Annual Review of Anthropology
SP - 177
EP - 196
BT - Annual Review of Anthropology
A2 - Durham, William
A2 - Brenneis, Donald
A2 - Ellison, Peter
ER -