Remaking Life and Death: Toward an Anthropology of the Biosciences

by Sarah Franklin (Editor), Margaret Lock (Editor)

The definition of life is central to Euro-American medicine and anthropology, however, its reality resists classification. This volume reflects the growing international concern about the issues of organ transplantation, new reproductive and genetic technologies and embryo research. North America: School for Advanced Research Press

Genres: Anthropology

Paperback

First published April 15, 2003

About the author

Dr. Sarah Franklin (1960–) is an anthropologist who was one of the first anthropologists to undertake ethnographic research on new reproductive technologies. Her research addresses the history and culture of UK IVF, the IVF-stem cell interface, cloning, embryo research, and changing understandings of kinship, biology, and technology. Her work combines both ethnographic methods and kinship theory, with more recent approaches from science studies, gender studies and cultural studies. Currently, she is a a Wellcome Trust Senior Investigator and the Chair of Sociology at the University of Cambridge where she directs the Reproductive Sociology Research Group.