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.
Table of Contents
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
