Provides fresh perspectives on the past, present and future-facing contributions of the anthropology of reproduction.
A Companion to the Anthropology of Reproductive Medicine and Technology provides a timely and comprehensive overview of the anthropological study of reproductive practices, technologies, and interventions in a global context. Exploring the medical and technological management of human reproduction through a sociocultural lens, this groundbreaking volume reviews past and current research, discusses contemporary debates and recent theoretical developments, introduces key themes and trends, examines ongoing issues of equity, inclusivity, and reproductive justice around the world, and more.
The Companion brings together essays by multidisciplinary scholars in fields including sociocultural anthropology, medical anthropology, reproductive health, global public health, Science and Technology Studies (STS), gender and sexuality studies, critical race studies, and environmental studies, to list but a few. Five thematically organized sections address reproductive practitioners and paradigms, global reproductive health and interventions, reproductive justice, the life-course approach to the study of reproductive health, and the future of reproductive technology and medicine.
Using clear, jargon-free language, the authors investigate pregnancy and childbirth; fertility treatments; birth control, contraception and abortion; COVID-19 and reproduction; reproductive cancers; epigenetics; social discrimination; gender and sexualities and reproduction for LGBTQIA+ communities; race and reproduction; migration and reproduction; reproduction and war; reproductive health financing; reproduction and disabilities, reproduction and the environment; and other important contemporary topics. A cutting-edge guide to the modern study of reproduction, this groundbreaking volume:
Provides an overview of the links between anthropological study and progressive work in medicine, healthcare, and technology Addresses both the challenges and opportunities facing researchers in the field Identifies gaps in current scholarship and offers recommendations for future research topics and methodologies Highlights the importance of ethnographic research combined with critical engagements with other disciplines for the anthropology of reproduction Explores the impact of socioeconomic conditions, environmental challenges, public policy, and legislation on reproductive health outcomes Traces the history of the field and demonstrates how anthropologists have engaged with issues of reproductive justice
Part of the acclaimed Wiley Blackwell Companions to Anthropology series, A Companion to the Anthropology of Reproductive Medicine and Technology is an essential resource for undergraduate and graduate students, researchers, and scholars in medical anthropology, science technology and society, cultural anthropology, ethnology, and gender studies, as well as medical practitioners, policymakers, and activists involved in global and public health and reproductive justice.
"Notes on Editors x Notes on Contributors xi Acknowledgments xxii INTRODUCTION Tracing the Arc: The Anthropology of Reproductive Medicine and Technology 1 Cecilia Coale Van Hollen and Nayantara Sheoran Appleton SECTION I Reproductive Practitioners and Paradigms 39 1 Into Doctors' Hands: Obstetric Praxis in Anthropology 41 Vania Smith-Oka and Simona Spiegel 2 Obstetrics and Midwifery in the United States: The Tensions between the Technocratic and Midwifery Models of Maternity Care 56 Robbie Davis-Floyd 3 The Promise of Interculturalidad: Contestations of Culture for Indigenous Birth Care 70 Lucía Guerra-Reyes 4 On the Move: Maternal Reproductive Healthcare Practitioners in Global Circuits 87 Hatice Nilay Erten and Claire Wendland 5 COVID-19 and Reproductive Health: Maternity Care in Disruptive Times 103 Kim Gutschow SECTION II Global Reproductive Health Interventions 119 6 The Global Safe Motherhood Initiative's ""Unintended Consequences"" 121 Emma Varley and Elsabé du Plessis 7 Counted: Understanding the Problem, Perception, and Reaction to Global Maternal Mortality 138 Vanessa M. Hildebrand 8 The Future of Reproductive Health Financing 153 Susan Erikson and Iveoma Udevi-Aruevoru 9 Reproduction and the Immigrant Experience 168 Carolyn Sargent, Carla Urrutia, and Laurence Kotobi 10 Reproduction in the Time of War: A Review of Ethnographic Studies from the United States' War on Terror and Beyond 185 Andrea Mazzarino SECTION III Reproductive Justice: Extending and Rupturing Old Boundaries 201 11 Anthropologies of Men, Masculinities, and Reproduction 203 Emily Wentzell, Maral Erol, and Salih Can Aciksöz 12 Queer Reproductive Futures 219 Nessette Falu and Christa Craven 13 Inconceivable: Cisnormativity and the Management of Trans and Intersex Reproduction 234 Mel Lynwood Ferrara 14 Race, Racism, and Reproductive Justice 250 Ugo Edu 15 Toward Environmental Reproductive Justice 266 Katharine Dow and Julieta Chaparro-Buitrago 16 Cripping Reproduction: The Intersections of Pregnancy and Disability 282 Faye Ginsburg and Rayna Rapp SECTION IV Reproductive Life Course: Mapping More than Just Birth 299 17 Menstrual Materiality: Anthropological Mappings from Menstrual Taboos to the FemCare Industry 301 Malissa Kay Shaw 18 The Substance of Sperm 317 Ayo Wahlberg 19 Hormonal Contraception: From Demographic Histories to Pleasurable Futures? 332 Nayantara Sheoran Appleton 20 Anthropology of Abortion 349 Maya Unnithan, Silvia De Zordo, Astrid Blystad, and Karen Marie Moland 21 Vaccines, Reproduction, and the Life Course 365 Ben Kasstan 22 Anthropological Explorations of Women's Reproductive Cancers 381 Linda Rae Bennett and Lenore Manderson SECTION V (Re)Producing the Future: Sociality of Reproductive Technology and Medicine 397 23 What's New about New Reproductive Technologies? 399 Sarah Franklin 24 Conceptualizing Surrogacy 415 Anindita Majumdar 25 The Egg Freezing Trifecta: Medical, Elective, and Transgender Fertility Preservation 429 Marcia C. Inhorn, Daphna Birenbaum-Carmeli, and Pasquale Patrizio 26 CRISPR Enters the Fertility Clinic 444 Eben Kirksey 27 Epigenetics and the Anthropology of Reproduction 458 Fiona C. Ross, Michelle Pentecost, and Tessa Moll 28 Reproductive Futures 473 Andrea Whittaker CONCLUSION Aab Kahan?: Whither the Anthropology of Reproduction? 488 Nayantara Sheoran Appleton and Cecilia Coale Van Hollen AFTERWORD Reproducing on an Impaired Planet 502 Aditya Bharadwaj Index 507"
CECILIA COALE VAN HOLLEN is a medical anthropologist and professor in the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University. She is the author of three ethnographies on reproductive healthcare in India and her work has been published in journals such as Medical Anthropology Quarterly, and Reproductive Health Matters. NAYANTARA SHEORAN APPLETON is a Senior Lecturer at the School of Science in Society at Te Herenga Waka, Victoria University of Wellington. She has co-edited Methods, Moments, and Ethnographic Spaces in Asia, and her work has been published in academic journals such as Economic and Political Weekly, American Anthropologist, and Medical Anthropology.
