Over the past three decades, scholars have paid greater attention to the intensification and
complex interconnectivity of local and global processes. Anthropological studies of cross …

▪ Abstract The human body—and its parts—has long been a target for commodification
within myriad cultural settings. A discussion of commodification requires that one consider …

This new edition of Sarah Franklin's classic monograph on the development of in vitro
fertilisation (IVF) includes two entirely new chapters reflecting on the relevance of the book's …

We live, according to some, in the century of biology, where we now understand ourselves in
radically new ways as the insights of genomics and neuroscience have opened up the …

Reproductive issues from sex and contraception to abortion and cloning have been
controversial for centuries, and scientists who attempted to turn the study of reproduction into …

In An Introduction to Childhood, Heather Montgomery examines the role children have
played within anthropology, how they have been studied by anthropologists and how they …

" Gay Becker, the leading ethnographer of the infertility experience in the US, provides a
powerful account of how American women and men think, feel, and talk about their …

Are new reproductive and genetic technologies racing ahead of a society that is unable to
establish limits to their use? Have the" new genetics" outpaced our ability to control their …

Although controversial, science studies has emerged in the 1990s as a significant culture
area within anthropology. Various histories inform the cultural analysis of science, both …

In Marx, Women and Capitalist Social Reproduction, Martha E. Gimenez offers a distinctive
perspective on social reproduction which posits that the relations of production determine …