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God's Laboratory
Elizabeth F. S. Roberts
其他書名
Assisted Reproduction in the Andes
出版
University of California Press
, 2012-05-25
主題
Health & Fitness / Fertility & Infertility
History / Latin America / South America
Medical / Reproductive Medicine & Technology
Social Science / Anthropology / General
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural
Social Science / Anthropology / Cultural & Social
Social Science / Archaeology
ISBN
0520270827
9780520270824
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=f36zAfFWRo0C&hl=&source=gbs_api
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“Bold and gripping,
God’s Laboratory
is ethnography at its best. The book’s unforgettable characters and their desperate travails to reproduce via global medicine are the very fabric of a highly-original and much-needed social theory for our twenty-first century technological societies.” - João Biehl, author of
Vita: Life in a Zone of Social Abandonment
"
God’s Laboratory
is the perfect anthropological antidote to the fetishization of reproductive materials as 'life itself.' Roberts shows in meticulous detail and in luminous prose how Catholic scientists and technicians in Ecuador invite God into private IVF labs to ‘bless the work’ of producing embryos. Kinship, care, and cultivation -- not embryonic life -- define reproduction in this uncertain world." - Nancy Scheper-Hughes, author of
Death Without Weeping: The Violence of Everyday Life in Brazil
“Written with clarity, compassion, and self-reflection,
God's Laboratory
is a beautiful book which puts the ethnographic method to excellent use. Roberts's painstaking fieldwork unearthed the many layers through which the aspirations for fertility and use of infertility technologies instantiate not only gender and kinship in Ecuador, but ethnicity, race and region in the national project of modernity. The book is a stunning instance of the benefits which accrue when the study of reproduction is used as an optic for understanding social life.” - Rayna Rapp, author of
Testing Women, Testing the Fetus: The Social Impact of Amniocentesis in America
“
God’s Laboratory
is a strong, intriguing and careful look at the daily connections between faith and science that underpin the process of human assisted reproduction in urban Ecuador." -Marisol de la Cadena, author of
Indigenous Mestizos: The Politics of Race and Culture in Cuzco, Peru, 1910-1991