Making Parents: The Ontological Choreography of Reproductive Technologies (Inside Technology)

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Assisted reproductive technology (ART) makes babies and parents immediately. Drawing on science and technology studies, feminist theory, and historical and ethnographic analyses of ART clinics, Charis Thompson explores the intertwining of biological reproduction with the personal, political, and technological meanings of reproduction. She analyzes the “ontological choreography” at ART clinics — the dynamics during which technical, scientific, kinship, gender, emotional, legal, political, financial, and other matters are coordinated — the usage of ethnographic data to address questions on a regular basis treated within the abstract. Reproductive technologies, says Thompson, are a part of the increasing tendency to turn social problems into biomedical questions and can be utilized as a lens wherein to see the resulting changes within the relations between science and society.After giving an account of the book’s disciplinary roots in science and technology studies and in feminist scholarship on reproduction, Thompson comes to the ethnographic heart of her study. She develops her concept of ontological choreography by examining ART’s normalization of “miraculous” technology (including the etiquette of technological sex); gender identity within the assigned roles of mother and father and the conservative nature of gender relations within the clinic; the naturalization of technologically assisted kinship and procreative intent; and patients’ pursuit of agency through objectification and technology. In the end, Thompson explores the economies of reproductive technologies, concluding with a speculative and polemical have a look at the “biomedical mode of reproduction” as a predictor of future relations between science and society.


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