Abstract
Since the first successful in vitro fertilization baby born in 1980, there has been an explosion of reproductive technologies to enhance and control fertility and reproduction. In this chapter the author explores some of the reproductive technologies and their imaginaries of the future. A range of procedures have become imbued with promises of the future extension of fertility, through either the suspension of time and degeneration of gametes through cryopreservation, or the storage and later transplantation of ovarian tissue to enable postcancer or postmenopausal reproduction. Ovarian tissue transplantation is a technique that has been used successfully to restore fertility in young women who need to undergo aggressive chemotherapy treatment for cancer. Derived from human stem cells, gametogenesis is a process attempting to create oocytes and spermatozoa from embryonic cells or adult skin cells. Finally, the author discusses the considerable body of social science work on the engineering of reproduction, through gene editing and cloning technologies.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | A Companion to the Anthropology of Reproductive Medicine and Technology |
| Editors | Cecilia Coale Van Hollen, Nayantara Sheoran Appleton |
| Place of Publication | Hoboken NJ USA |
| Publisher | John Wiley & Sons |
| Chapter | 28 |
| Pages | 473-487 |
| Number of pages | 15 |
| Edition | 1st |
| ISBN (Electronic) | 9781119845379, 9781119845362, 9781119845355 |
| ISBN (Print) | 9781119845348, 9781119845386 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - 2024 |
Keywords
- Chemotherapy treatment
- Cloning technologies
- Cryopreservation
- Gametogenesis
- Gene editing
- In vitro fertilization
- Ovarian tissue transplantation
- Postmenopausal reproduction
- Reproductive technologies
