Thai in Vitro

Gender, Culture and Assisted Reproduction
1. Auflage 2015
ISBN: 978-1-78238-732-9
Verlag: Berghahn Books

Buch, Englisch, Band 30, 276 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 557 g

Reihe: Fertility, Reproduction and Sexuality: Social and Cultural Perspectives

In Thailand, infertility remains a source of stigma for those couples that combine a range of religious, traditional and high-tech interventions in their quest for a child. This book explores this experience of infertility and the pursuit and use of assisted reproductive technologies by Thai couples. Though using assisted reproductive technologies is becoming more acceptable in Thai society, access to and choices about such technologies are mediated by differences in class position. These stories of women and men in private and public infertility clinics reveal how local social and moral sensitivities influence the practices and meanings of treatment.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Whittaker, Andrea

Fachgebiete

• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Vorklinische Medizin: Grundlagenfächer Reproduktionsmedizin
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Regierungspolitik Kultur-, Wissenschafts- & Technologiepolitik
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Regierungspolitik Umwelt- und Gesundheitspolitik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface

Acknowledgments

Notes on Language and Transliteration

Abbreviations

Introduction: Culture Mediums

Chapter 1. The Birth of IVF in Thailand

Chapter 2. Incompleteness

Chapter 3. Begging for Babies

Chapter 4. Engaging Technologies

Chapter 5. The Clinical Ensemble

Chapter 6. Patriarchal Bargains

Chapter 7. ‘Love Clinic’: Cyber-sociality

Chapter 8. ‘Technology that gives men hope’

Chapter 9. Carrying the Merit

Conclusion

Appendix

Glossary

References

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Whittaker, Andrea
Andrea Whittaker is an ARC Future Fellow and Convenor of Anthropology at Monash University. She is a medical anthropologist whose most recent publications include Abortion, Sin and the State in Thailand (2004) and Abortion in Asia: Local dilemmas, global politics (ed., Berghahn Books 2010).

Andrea Whittaker is an ARC Future Fellow and Convenor of Anthropology at Monash University. She is a medical anthropologist whose most recent publications include Abortion, Sin and the State in Thailand (2004) and Abortion in Asia: Local dilemmas, global politics (ed., Berghahn Books 2010).