A companion to the anthropology of reproductive medicine and technology / 
edited by Cecilia Coale Van Hollen, Nayantara Appleton. 
 - pages cm. 
 - Wiley Blackwell companions to anthropology. .
 - Wiley Blackwell companions to anthropology. .
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/>Table of Contents<br/>Notes on Editors x<br/><br/>Notes on Contributors xi<br/><br/>Acknowledgments xxii<br/><br/>INTRODUCTION<br/><br/>Tracing the Arc: The Anthropology of Reproductive Medicine and Technology 1<br/>Cecilia Coale Van Hollen and Nayantara Sheoran Appleton<br/><br/>SECTION I Reproductive Practitioners and Paradigms 39<br/><br/>1 Into Doctors' Hands: Obstetric Praxis in Anthropology 41<br/>Vania Smith-Oka and Simona Spiegel<br/><br/>2 Obstetrics and Midwifery in the United States: The Tensions between the Technocratic and Midwifery Models of Maternity Care 56<br/>Robbie Davis-Floyd<br/><br/>3 The Promise of Interculturalidad: Contestations of Culture for Indigenous Birth Care 70<br/>Lucía Guerra-Reyes<br/><br/>4 On the Move: Maternal Reproductive Healthcare Practitioners in Global Circuits 87<br/>Hatice Nilay Erten and Claire Wendland<br/><br/>5 COVID-19 and Reproductive Health: Maternity Care in Disruptive Times 103<br/>Kim Gutschow<br/><br/>SECTION II Global Reproductive Health Interventions 119<br/><br/>6 The Global Safe Motherhood Initiative's "Unintended Consequences" 121<br/>Emma Varley and Elsabé du Plessis<br/><br/>7 Counted: Understanding the Problem, Perception, and Reaction to Global Maternal Mortality 138<br/>Vanessa M. Hildebrand<br/><br/>8 The Future of Reproductive Health Financing 153<br/>Susan Erikson and Iveoma Udevi-Aruevoru<br/><br/>9 Reproduction and the Immigrant Experience 168<br/>Carolyn Sargent, Carla Urrutia, and Laurence Kotobi<br/><br/>10 Reproduction in the Time of War: A Review of Ethnographic Studies from the United States' War on Terror and Beyond 185<br/>Andrea Mazzarino<br/><br/>SECTION III Reproductive Justice: Extending and Rupturing Old Boundaries 201<br/><br/>11 Anthropologies of Men, Masculinities, and Reproduction 203<br/>Emily Wentzell, Maral Erol, and Salih Can Aciksöz<br/><br/>12 Queer Reproductive Futures 219<br/>Nessette Falu and Christa Craven<br/><br/>13 Inconceivable: Cisnormativity and the Management of Trans and Intersex Reproduction 234<br/>Mel Lynwood Ferrara<br/><br/>14 Race, Racism, and Reproductive Justice 250<br/>Ugo Edu<br/><br/>15 Toward Environmental Reproductive Justice 266<br/>Katharine Dow and Julieta Chaparro-Buitrago<br/><br/>16 Cripping Reproduction: The Intersections of Pregnancy and Disability 282<br/>Faye Ginsburg and Rayna Rapp<br/><br/>SECTION IV Reproductive Life Course: Mapping More than Just Birth 299<br/><br/>17 Menstrual Materiality: Anthropological Mappings from Menstrual Taboos to the FemCare Industry 301<br/>Malissa Kay Shaw<br/><br/>18 The Substance of Sperm 317<br/>Ayo Wahlberg<br/><br/>19 Hormonal Contraception: From Demographic Histories to Pleasurable Futures? 332<br/>Nayantara Sheoran Appleton<br/><br/>20 Anthropology of Abortion 349<br/>Maya Unnithan, Silvia De Zordo, Astrid Blystad, and Karen Marie Moland<br/><br/>21 Vaccines, Reproduction, and the Life Course 365<br/>Ben Kasstan<br/><br/>22 Anthropological Explorations of Women's Reproductive Cancers 381<br/>Linda Rae Bennett and Lenore Manderson<br/><br/>SECTION V (Re)Producing the Future: Sociality of Reproductive Technology and Medicine 397<br/><br/>23 What's New about New Reproductive Technologies? 399<br/>Sarah Franklin<br/><br/>24 Conceptualizing Surrogacy 415<br/>Anindita Majumdar<br/><br/>25 The Egg Freezing Trifecta: Medical, Elective, and Transgender Fertility Preservation 429<br/>Marcia C. Inhorn, Daphna Birenbaum-Carmeli, and Pasquale Patrizio<br/><br/>26 CRISPR Enters the Fertility Clinic 444<br/>Eben Kirksey<br/><br/>27 Epigenetics and the Anthropology of Reproduction 458<br/>Fiona C. Ross, Michelle Pentecost, and Tessa Moll<br/><br/>28 Reproductive Futures 473<br/>Andrea Whittaker<br/><br/>CONCLUSION<br/><br/>Aab Kahan?: Whither the Anthropology of Reproduction? 488<br/>Nayantara Sheoran Appleton and Cecilia Coale Van Hollen<br/><br/>AFTERWORD<br/><br/>Reproducing on an Impaired Planet 502<br/>Aditya Bharadwaj<br/><br/>Index 507 
<br/><br/> "The history of obstetrics is also a history of power. As the field of obstetrics became more professionalized, specialized, and masculinized in the 19th century, midwifery was racialized and excised in the United States and denigrated abroad by early development efforts. Childbirth shifted into the hospital where obstetricians continue to develop medical and technological models of perinatal care"-- 
<br/><br/><br/>About the Author<br/>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.<br/><br/>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. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781119845348 1119845343 9781119845386 1119845386 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2023010360 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Human reproduction--Anthropological aspects.<br/>Medical anthropology.<br/>Reproductive health.<br/>Human reproductive technology.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Electronic books.