Embodied Progress: A Cultural Account of Assisted Conception

by Sarah Franklin

"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. 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"--

Unknown Binding

First published February 13, 1997

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.

Reviews

[Katie Waeldner · Rating 4 out of 5]

For a book report for Medical Anthropology Quarterly. Learned a lot tho and fun to be reading cul anth scholars again! Felt like college