Born and made : an ethnography of preimplantation genetic diagnosis / Sarah Franklin and Celia Roberts.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Franklin, Sarah, 1960-

Contributor:

Roberts, Celia, 1968-

Series:

In-Formation

In-formation series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Preimplantation genetic diagnosis--Social aspects--Great Britain.

Preimplantation genetic diagnosis.

Preimplantation genetic diagnosis--Moral and ethical aspects.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (283 p.)

Edition:

Course Book

Other Title:

Ethnography of preimplantation genetic diagnosis

Place of Publication:

Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, 2006.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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 future applications? This book examines the case of preimplantation genetic diagnosis (PGD), the procedure used to prevent serious genetic disease by embryo selection, and the so-called "designer baby" method. Using detailed empirical evidence, the authors show that far from being a runaway technology, the regulation of PGD over the past fifteen years provides an example of precaution and restraint, as well as continual adaptation to changing social circumstances. Through interviews, media and policy analysis, and participant observation at two PGD centers in the United Kingdom, Born and Made provides an in-depth sociological examination of the competing moral obligations that define the experience of PGD. Among the many novel findings of this pathbreaking ethnography of reproductive biomedicine is the prominence of uncertainty and ambivalence among PGD patients and professionals--a finding characteristic of the emerging "biosociety," in which scientific progress is inherently paradoxical and contradictory. In contrast to much of the speculative futurology that defines this field, Born and Made provides a timely and revealing case study of the on-the-ground decision-making that shapes technological assistance to human heredity.

Contents:

What is PGD?

Studying PGD

Getting to PGD

Going through PGD

Moving on from PGD

Accounting for PGD.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (pages [233]-248) and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780691121925

0691121923

9781400835423

1400835429

OCLC:

778615639