Between Families and Frankenstein : The Politics of Egg Donation in the United States / Erin Heidt-Forsythe.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Heidt-Forsythe, Erin, Author.

Series:

California scholarship online.

California scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Human reproductive technology--Law and legislation.

Human reproductive technology.

Human reproductive technology--Political aspects.

Egg donors--Political aspects--United States.

Egg donors.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

Berkeley, CA : University of California Press, [2018]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

In the United States, egg donation for reproduction and egg donation for research involve the same procedures, the same risks, and the same population of donors-disadvantaged women at the intersections of race and class. Yet cultural attitudes and state-level policies regarding egg donation are dramatically different depending on whether the donation is for reproduction or for research. Erin Heidt-Forsythe explores the ways that framing egg donation itself creates diverse politics in the United States, which, unlike other Western democracies, has no centralized method of regulating donations, relying instead on market forces and state legislatures to regulate egg donation and reproductive technologies. Beginning with a history of scientific research around the human egg, the book connects historical debates about the "natural" (reproduction) and "unnatural" (research) uses of women's eggs to contemporary political regulation of egg donation. Examining egg donation in California, New York, Arizona, and Louisiana and coupled with original data on how egg donation has been regulated over the last twenty years, this book is the first comprehensive overview and analysis of the politics of egg donation across the United States.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1. Dream or Nightmare? Theories and Histories of Egg Donation in the United States

2. Framing Egg Donation at the State Level

3. Statecraft Is Always Soul Craft: Egg Donation Politics in Four States

4. Toward a New Gendered Partisanship: Egg Donation Politics in the States

Conclusion

Appendix 1. Medical and Psychological Practices and Risks of Egg Donation

Appendix 2. Measures in Chapter 4

Appendix 3. Data Collection of Egg Donation Bills, 1995-2010

Notes

Works Cited

Index

Notes:

Previously issued in print: 2018.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 21. Dez 2019)

ISBN:

9780520970434

0520970438

OCLC:

1058514827