Eggonomics

The Global Market in Human Eggs and the Donors Who Supply Them
1. Auflage 2024
ISBN: 978-1-032-54991-0
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 326 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 477 g

Reihe: Social Science Perspectives on Childbirth and Reproduction

What happens when people are reduced to products? By pulling back the clinical curtain on the multi-billion-dollar per year global egg industry, that is the central question Eggonomics seeks to address. Tracing the emotional and physical journeys egg donors embark upon as suppliers of valuable commodities, this book reveals uncomfortable realities at the heart of the industry. Donors — and the eggs they provide — are absolutely essential to helping others create the families of their dreams. But not all clinics treat their donors as well as their paying patients, and many donors suffer as a result. Technological innovations allow the egg donation industry to expand, fueling the private equity incursion into fertility medicine, turning once-private clinics into highly profitable, multinational conglomerates. Drawing upon international anthropological fieldwork, Eggonomics reveals the clinical spaces where egg donor’s bodies are tested, prodded, and poked for ever-increasing sums of profit, eugenic forces drive donor selection, and the unrelenting pressures of global capitalism threaten medicine’s prime directive of ‘do no harm.’ Timely, meticulously researched, and written with surgical precision, Eggonomics is a crucial read for researchers, medical professionals, policymakers, and anyone considering becoming or using an egg donor.

Zielgruppe

Academic, General, Postgraduate, and Undergraduate Advanced

Autoren/Hrsg.

Tober, Diane M.

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizin, Gesundheitswesen Medizin, Gesundheit: Sachbuch, Ratgeber
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Vorklinische Medizin: Grundlagenfächer Reproduktionsmedizin

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface

Acknowledgments

List of terms and abbreviations

Introduction: Golden Eggs

Chapter 1: Frozen Futures

Chapter 2: The Perfect Donor

Chapter 3: Egg Machines

Chapter 4: Sunny Side Up

Chapter 5: Passports and Cryotanks

Chapter 6: Poached

Chapter 7: Cracked

Chapter 8: Egg Babies and Bio-Moms

Conclusion: Just Eggs

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Diane Tober is Associate Professor at The University of Alabama, Department of Anthropology, and the Institute for Social Science Research. She is also the author of Romancing the Sperm: Shifting Biopolitics and the Making of Modern Families.