“I6 passages: on the reproduction of a human embryonic stem cell line from Israel to France”

Merleau-Ponty, Noémie; Vertommen, Sigrid; Pucéat, Michel

doi:10.1080/14636778.2018.1548269

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“…Global chains have been found to account for a multi-sited and often transnational nature of surrogacy and egg donation. 21 , 49 , 50 In her research on surrogacy in the western Russian metropolis of St Petersburg, Christina Weis 7 , 51 observed that the moral framework of worker-mothers referred to by the interviewed surrogate mothers dated back to the reproductive politics within the Soviet Union, which exceeded national jurisdictions.…”

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Moral frameworks of commercial surrogacy within the US, India and Russia

Smietana

Rudrappa

Weis

2021

Sexual and Reproductive Health Matters

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In this paper, we draw on three ethnographic studies of surrogacy we carried out separately in different contexts: the western US state of California, the south Indian state of Karnataka, and the western Russian metropolis of St Petersburg. In our interviews with surrogate mothers, intended parents, and surrogacy professionals, we traced the meanings and ideologies through which they understood the clinical labour of surrogacy. We found that in the US, interviewed surrogates, intended parents and professionals understood surrogacy as an exchange of both gifts and commodities, where gift-giving, reciprocity, and relatedness between surrogates and intended parents were the major tropes. In India, differing narratives of surrogacy were offered by its different parties: whilst professionals and intended parents framed it as a win-win exchange with an emphasis on the economic side, the interviewed surrogate mothers talked about surrogacy as creative labour of giving life. In Russia, approaches to surrogacy among the interviewed surrogate mothers, professionals and intended parents overlapped in framing it as work and a businesslike commodity exchange. We suggest these three different ways of ethical reasoning about the clinical labour of surrogacy, including justifications of women’s incorporation into this labour, were situated in local moral frameworks. We name them “repro-regional moral frameworks”, inspired by earlier work on moral frameworks as well as on reproductive nationalisms and transnational reproduction. Building on these findings, we argue that any international or global regulation of surrogacy, or indeed any moral stance on it, needs to take these local differences into account.

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Section: Key Concepts and Literaturementioning

confidence: 99%

Moral frameworks of commercial surrogacy within the US, India and Russia

Smietana

Rudrappa

Weis

2021

Sexual and Reproductive Health Matters

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“…The recent edited volume by Walhberg and Gammeltoft (2018) on selective reproduction in the twenty-first century explores how local moralities across different cultural contexts play out. Other evolved technologies that are at the forefront of medicine include regenerative medicine and embryonic stem cell research (Franklin, 2018;Jent 2018;Merleau-Ponty, Vertommen and Pucéat 2018;Rapp 2011). As they have provided people with opportunities to create new formations of kin, these advancements in reproductive medicine have made the biogenetic elements of human relationships more visible than ever before (Strathern 1995).…”

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Kin-making in the Reproductive Penumbram: Surrogacy in Aotearoa New Zealand

Gibson¹

2021

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<p>As many as one in four New Zealanders experience infertility. Some choose to pursue surrogacy as an option to make a family because traditional surrogacy and gestational surrogacy are legal in Aotearoa New Zealand on an altruistic basis. Straddling the two reproductive worlds – ‘traditional’ and ‘technological’ – surrogacy in Aotearoa New Zealand offers us a ripe site for analysis and rethinking how kinship is made and unmade within what I refer to as the reproductive penumbra. Surrogacy as a reproductive practice exists outside of, or in the shadows of, heteronormative reproduction and mainstream Euro-American kinship. Surrogacy also asks people to enter an unknown reproductive space and navigate myriad processes, institutions, and legislations to realise their plans to make kin non-normatively. Drawing on three years of multi-sited ethnographic fieldwork, in this thesis I unpack what kin-practices, narratives, rituals, rules, and relationships are mobilised within and between the various landscapes involved in surrogacy in Aotearoa New Zealand. I outline how people make kin in the multiple shadows they inhabit and move through during their surrogacy journeys. These range from the intimate and inter-personal relationships in the surrogacy community, the fertility clinic, and inside the embryology laboratory, to the institutional and regulatory processes and the state. Through their negotiation of these spaces that are situated in the shadows of the colonial state, everyday legality, and motherhood ideologies, intended parents and surrogates disrupt, to varying degrees, pervasive ideas about kinship with different interpretations and enactments of reproductive participation. Through detailed narratives of people wanting to and helping make kin in the shadows, this research on surrogacy complicates societal understandings of the co-constructed nature of kinship, motherhood, and reproductive medicine. Rather than positioning kin-making in shadows as inherently negative, this thesis celebrates the potentiality and plurality of reproduction that underpins and emerges from surrogacy.</p>

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“…However, this may also create unrealistic hopes, especially among azoospermic men who do not produce any spermatozoa at all and are waiting for this type of ‘miracle cure’ ( Inhorn, 2012b ). In addition, new forms of reproductive biobanking are shaping a global world of clinical science and resource sharing between countries, but not all partners, especially those from the global South, benefit equally ( Merleau-Ponty et al, 2018 ).…”

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Reprint: Where has the quest for conception taken us? Lessons from anthropology and sociology

Inhorn

2020

Reproductive Biomedicine & Society Online

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Louise Brown, the world's first test-tube baby, was born more than 40 years ago in England. For Louise Brown's infertile mother, Lesley, in-vitro fertilization (IVF) was the 'hope technology' which allowed her to overcome her tubal infertility after 9 years of heart-breaking involuntary childlessness. Since then, IVF has travelled to diverse global locations, where millions of individuals and couples have embarked on technologically assisted 'quests for conception'. After 40 years of IVF, where has the quest for conception taken us? This article outlines seven major global trajectories -namely, that the quest for conception has become more: (i) technological, because of a profusion of IVF-based innovations; (ii) masculine, because of men's eager uptake of intracytoplasmic sperm injection, their own 'masculine hope technology'; (iii) stratified, due to persistent race-and class-based barriers in IVF access; (iv) transnational, as infertile and other involuntarily childless people search across borders to overcome restrictions in their home countries; (v) selective, as IVF-based reprogenetic technologies eliminate genetic disease while exacerbating sex selection; (vi) moral, as religious sensibilities both accommodate and curtail the possibilities and outcomes of assisted reproductive technology (ART); and (vii) extended, as new cryopreservation technologies prolong the reproductive lifespan and extend reproduction to the transgender community. The article concludes with thoughts on where future quests for conception might take us, and why IVF and other reproductive technologies are 'good to think with' in both the anthropology and sociology of reproduction.

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“I6 passages: on the reproduction of a human embryonic stem cell line from Israel to France”

Cited by 13 publications

References 65 publications

Moral frameworks of commercial surrogacy within the US, India and Russia

Moral frameworks of commercial surrogacy within the US, India and Russia

Kin-making in the Reproductive Penumbram: Surrogacy in Aotearoa New Zealand

Reprint: Where has the quest for conception taken us? Lessons from anthropology and sociology

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