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Author Waldby, Cathy, author

Title The oocyte economy : the changing meaning of human eggs / Catherine Waldby
Published Durham : Duke University Press, 2019

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Contents Temporal oocytes : fertility and deep time -- Twentieth-century oocytes : experiment and experience -- Precious oocytes : IVF and the deficit spiral -- Global oocytes : medical tourism and the transaction of fertility -- Cold-chain oocytes : vitrification and the formation of corporate egg banks -- Private oocytes : personal egg banking and generational time -- Innovation oocytes : therapeutic cloning and mitochondrial donation
Summary In recent years increasing numbers of women from wealthy countries have turned to egg donation, egg freezing, and in vitro fertilization to become pregnant, especially later in life. This trend has created new ways of using, exchanging, and understanding oocytes-the reproductive cells specific to women. In 'The Oocyte Economy' Catherine Waldby draws on 130 interviews--with scientists, clinicians, and women who have either donated or frozen their oocytes or received those of another woman--to trace how the history of human oocytes' perceived value intersects with the biological and social life of women. Demonstrating how oocytes have come to be understood as discrete and scarce biomedical objects open to valuation, management, and exchange, Waldy examines the global market for oocytes and the power dynamics between recipients and the often younger and poorer donors. With this exploration of the oocyte economy and its contemporary biopolitical significance, Waldby rethinks the relationship between fertility, gendered experience, and biomedical innovation
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Ovum.
Fertility, Human -- Social aspects
Fertility, Human -- Economic aspects
Human reproductive technology -- Economic aspects
Infertility -- Treatment -- Economic aspects
Medical tourism.
Fertility.
Oocytes
Fertility
Reproductive Techniques -- economics
Infertility -- economics
Medical Tourism
MEDICAL -- Gynecology & Obstetrics.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gender Studies
Fertility
Fertility, Human -- Economic aspects
Fertility, Human -- Social aspects
Human reproductive technology -- Economic aspects
Medical tourism
Ovum
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2018059627
ISBN 9781478005568
1478005564