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Breeding cells / directed by Anna Straube ... [et al.].
- Format:
- Video
- Series:
- Academic Video Online
- Student films
- Language:
- German
- Subjects (All):
- Fertility clinics--Germany.
- Fertility clinics.
- Genre:
- Nonfiction films.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (39 min.).
- Other Title:
- Schwangere Zellen.
- Place of Publication:
- London, UK : Royal Anthropological Institute, 2009.
- Language Note:
- In German.
- Summary:
- Breeding Cells is a film from the laboratory of reproduction. A fertility clinic is a place where human reproduction is separated from sex and anatomized into bio/technological components. There fertilization is made visible and manipulable on a cellular level while the couples themselves seem to become marginal participants in a process that involves a large number of different professionalized agents and technologies. Recorded in the ward of reproductional medicine at Charite Hospital Berlin, this documentary approaches a scientific environment with an experimental ethnographic gaze. The filmmakers meet an open and quite unexcited "fertility team", who consider themselves simply assistants of nature. But what is nature in a hospital environment that is highly regulated by procedural methods, doctors conventions and conservative laws? Closely describing the routines and moral concerns of the medical staff, the film is portraying a transition time, when biotechnological science fiction is turning into everyday life.
- Notes:
- Title from resource description page (viewed March 29, 2016).
- Recorded Berlin, Germany 0000.
- OCLC:
- 849668788
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