Catherine Waldby

The Oocyte Economy: The Changing Meaning of Human Eggs

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Produktbeschreibung

Catherine Waldby is Director of the Research School of Social Sciences at Australian National University and the author and coauthor of several books, including Clinical Labor: Tissue Donors and Research Subjects in the Global Bioeconomy, also published by Duke University Press.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 248
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Mai 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 228mm x 151mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 330g
• ISBN-13: 9781478004721
• ISBN-10: 147800472X
• Artikelnr.: 53600321

Autorenporträt

Catherine Waldby

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments  vii
Introduction  1
1. Temporal Oocytes: Fertility and Deep Time  23
2. Twentieth-Century Oocytes: Experiment and Experience  41
3. Precious Oocytes: IVF and the Deficit Spiral  64
4. Global Oocytes: Medical Tourism and the Transaction of Fertility  88
5. Cold-Chain Oocytes: Vitrification and the Formation of Corporate Egg
Banks  119
6. Private Oocytes: Personal Egg Banking and Generational Time  114
7. Innovation Oocytes: Therapeutic Cloning and Mitochondrial Donation  161
Conclusion  191
Appendix  199
Notes  205
References  211
Index  231