the end of the body?

Martin, Emily

doi:10.1525/ae.1992.19.1.02a00070

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“…Uma entrevistada qualificou de inevitável o desenvolvimento da clonagem de células-tronco embrionárias. Martin (1992b) comenta a esse respeito que há uma mudança de concepção sobre o corpo/ pessoa como agente de processos produtivos para o corpo como um recurso cujas partes podem ser estocadas, clonadas e negociadas.…”

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“…Na etapa final todos os restantes colaboraram, mas o herói selecionado da tropa ganha a exclusividade da conquista em que tantos ficaram pelo caminho. Essa descrição da "jornada" dos espermatozóides dentro do trato genital feminino até a fertilização corresponde a uma observação sobre representações do sistema imune: a pessoa se torna uma observadora da agência dos outros dentro de si (Martin, 1992b).…”

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Provetas e clones: uma antropologia das novas tecnologias reprodutivas

Luna¹

2007

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Provetas e clones: uma antropologia das novas tecnologias reprodutivas

Luna¹

2007

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“…All these statements clearly represented a transformation of the productive world described by Mar-tin, where "time horizons of decision" are "shrinking" and time and space are compressed (Martin 1992). This way, infertility is revealed to be a commentary on the socio-political context; the symp-toms themselves could be read as a reaction to those critical conditions experienced as pathogenic forces.…”

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Unwanted Childlessness and NRTs in Italy: Biology and Sociality in a Political and Infra-political Struggle

Lesmo¹

2013

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Lesmo, Ilaria. (2013). Unwanted Childlessness and NRTs in Italy: Biology and Sociality in A Political and Infra-political Struggle. Tidsskrift for Forskning i Sygdom og Samfund, nr. 19, This article explores the way in which people with unwanted childlessness who are undergoing the New Reproductive Technologies (NRTs) interpret and experience such technologies and their own affliction after the approval of Law 40/2004 (the first Italian law rulingNRTs ' usage First of all, the work analyses how people with unwanted childlessness interpreted their own affliction, as well as Law 40/2004, and how they related them to some socio-cultural processes. As the paper will show, the concepts of "embodiment" and "structural violence" are useful analytical tools in order to show how the subjective experiences and the socio-cultural context have reciprocally shaped one another.In the second place, the article examines the practices performed by subjects with unwanted childlessness undergoing NRTs. These people have usually accused the groups in power of limiting the reproductive chances of people already suffering from reproductive limitation. In reaction to this situation, they carried out some creative strategies. The concept of "infrapolitics" is pivotal in order to understand such strategies, which allowed these people to exert their own agency within an arena of reproductive constraints. Particularly, the manipulation and the resemantization of some technologies result to be very important in their at- Mainly, the subjects were affected by conditions categorized by different biomedical diagnoses (a): Idiopathic infertility was diagnosed in three cases, bilateral tubal obstruction in one case, early menopause in one case, and secretory azoospermia in one case.These people also underwent different therapeutic paths (b): Fabiana had some intrauterine inseminations (IUI), before trying two cycles of in vitro fertilizations (IVF). She turned to two different clinics, but she never cryopreserved embryos.She gave birth to twins after the second attempt. Luisa was pregnant after her first in vitro fertilization, when she had a daughter. She could have cryopreserved 30Tidsskrift for Forskning i Sygdom og Samfund, nr. 19, 27-53 many embryos, since at that time Law 40/2004 had not been approved yet. After a few years, she decided to undergo an embryos implantation and she gave birth to twins. Elisa became the mother of a set of triplets at her second in vitro fertilisation. Also in this case, many embryos could have been cryopreserved. Sabina tried IUI many times, always ineffectively. Some years later, she entered a new clinic where a doctor suggested her in vitro fertilization. Sabrina was pregnant at the third attempt and she gave birth to twins. Bruna, and Anna and Giovanni had to undergo a donation of gametes. Since the law (which had already been approved) banned this practice, they had to go abroad. Bruna was pregnant at her first embryos implantation, while Anna and Giovanni had to wait three in vitro fertiliszations with...

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“…Just as with developments in transplantation medicine, with advances in reproductive medicine the boundaries of the body, in terms of closures at the skin and finiteness in terms of biological age, have been stretched, resulting in the open, flexible, leaky, fluid and unbounded body (Martin 1992;Shildrick 1997). While earlier the physical relationships between one human being and another were limited by relationships between bodies enclosed by boundaries of skin, now, relationships-real and virtual-are also through parts of bodies and the range of body parts that can be related is immense.…”

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Embodied Subjects and Fragmented Objects: Women’s Bodies, Assisted Reproduction Technologies and the Right to Self-Determination

Gupta

Richters

2008

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This article focuses on the transformation of the female reproductive body with the use of assisted reproduction technologies under neo-liberal economic globalisation, wherein the ideology of trade without borders is central, as well as under liberal feminist ideals, wherein the right to self-determination is central. Two aspects of the body in western medicine-the fragmented body and the commodified body, and the integral relation between these two-are highlighted. This is done in order to analyse the implications of local and global transactions in women's reproductive body parts for their right to self-determination and individual agency and what this means for their embodiment. We conclude by exploring whether women can become embodied subjects by exercising their proprietary right to their bodies through directing technology to achieve their own goals, while at the same time being fragmented into parts and losing their personhood and bodily integrity.

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the end of the body?

Cited by 169 publications

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Provetas e clones: uma antropologia das novas tecnologias reprodutivas

Provetas e clones: uma antropologia das novas tecnologias reprodutivas

Unwanted Childlessness and NRTs in Italy: Biology and Sociality in a Political and Infra-political Struggle

Embodied Subjects and Fragmented Objects: Women’s Bodies, Assisted Reproduction Technologies and the Right to Self-Determination

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