Off-Centre

by Sarah Franklin (Editor), Celia Lury (Editor), Jackie Stacey (Editor)

First published in 1991. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Genres: Nonfiction

356 pages, Paperback

First published September 1, 1991

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.