• Media type: E-Book
  • Title: Making multiple babies : anticipatory regimes of assisted reproduction
  • Contains: Multiple embryo transfer: anticipating success and risk -- eSET: anticipating new success and re-networking IVF -- When IVF became a nationalist glory -- The making of the world's most lenient guideline -- Optimization within disrupted reproduction -- Women encounter fetal reduction -- An-Tai: active maternal body work.
  • Contributor: Wu, Chia-Ling [Author]
  • Published: [New York]: Berghahn Books, 2023
  • Published in: Fertility, reproduction and sexuality ; volume 52
  • Extent: 1 Online-Ressource
  • Language: English
  • ISBN: 9781800738850; 1800738854
  • Keywords: Fertilization in vitro, Human ; Fertilization in vitro, Human Government policy ; Fertilization in vitro, Human Moral and ethical aspects ; Fertilization in vitro, Human Social aspects ; Fertilization in vitro, Human - Government policy ; Fertilization in vitro, Human - Moral and ethical aspects ; Fertilization in vitro, Human - Social aspects ; MEDICAL / Reproductive Medicine & Technology
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  • Footnote: Includes bibliographical references and index
  • Description: "Human beings have been producing more twins, triplets, and quadruplets than ever before, due to the expansion of medically assisted conception. This book analyzes the anticipatory regimes of making multiple babies. With archival documents, participant observation, in-depth interviews, and registry data, this book traces the global and local governance of the assisted reproductive technologies (ARTs) used to tackle multiple pregnancy since the 1970s, highlighting the early promotion of single embryo transfer in Belgium and Japan and the making of the world's most lenient guidelines in Taiwan"--
  • Access State: Open Access