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Berghahn Books Kin Gene Community Reproductive Technologies among Jewish Israelis 2010 Edition by Daphna Birenbaum-Carmeli, Yoram S. Carmeli
Israel is the only country in the world that offers free fertility treatments to nearly any woman who requires medical assistance. It also has the world's highest per capita usage of in-vitro fertilization. Examining state policies and the application of reproductive technologies among Jewish Israelis, this volume explores the role of tradition and politics in the construction of families within local Jewish populations. The contributors-anthropologists, bioethicists, jurists, physicians and biologists-highlight the complexities surrounding these treatments and show how biological relatedness is being construed as a technology of power; how genetics is woven into the production of identities; how reproductive technologies enhance the policing of boundaries. Donor insemination, IVF and surrogacy, as well as abortion, pre-implantation genetic diagnosis and human embryonic stem cell research, are explored within local and global contexts to convey an informed perspective on the wider Jewish Israeli environment. Table of contents :- List of Tables and FiguresIntroduction: Reproductive Technologies among Jewish Israelis: Setting the GroundDaphna Birenbaum-Carmeli and Yoram S. Carmeli PART I: KIN: REPRODUCTIVE TECHNOLOGIES AND THE QUEST FOR BIOGENETIC PARENTHOODChapter 1. The Contribution of Israeli Researchers to Reproductive Medicine: Fertility Experts' PerspectivesShlomo Mashiach, Daphna Birenbaum-Carmeli, Roy Mashiach and Martha DirnfeldChapter 2. The Regulation of Preimplantation Genetic Diagnosis for Sibling Donors in Israel, Germany and England: A Comparative Look at Balancing Risks and BenefitsYael Hashiloni-Dolev and Shiri Shkedi Chapter 3. The Man in the Sperm: Kinship and Fatherhood in Light of Male Infertility in IsraelHelene GoldbergChapter 4. The Last Outpost of the Nuclear Family: A Cultural Critique of Israeli Surrogacy PolicyElly TemanChapter 5. Adoption and Assisted reproduction Technologies: A Comparative Reading of Israeli PoliciesDaphna Birenbaum-Carmeli and Yoram S. Carmeli PART II: GENE: REPRODUCTIVE TECHNOLOGIES AND THE QUEST FOR THE PERFECT CHILDChapter 6. Genetic Testing and Screening in Religious Groups: Perspectives of Jewish Haredi CommunitiesBarbara Prainsack and Gil SiegalChapter 7. Ultrasonic Challenges to PronatalismTsipi IvryChapter 8. Abortion Committees as Agents of Eugenics: Medical and Public Views on Selective Abortion following Mild or Likely Fetal PathologyNitzan Rimon-Zarfaty and Aviad RazChapter 9. Cultural Values in Action: The Israeli Approach to Human CloningGali Ben-Or and Vardit RavitskyPART III: COMMUNITY: A SELF-PORTRAIT WITH TECHNOLOGYChapter 10. Art, Community and Beyond: Human Embryonic Stem Cell Research in IsraelInterviews with Prof. Nissim Benvenisty and Prof. karl Skorecki Interviewer: Daphna Birenbaum-CarmeliChapter 11. Medicine and the State. The Medicalization of Reproduction in IsraelYali Hashash-Daniel Chapter 12. The Mirth of the Clinic: The Banality of Conception in an Israeli Fertility ClinicSusan M. KahnChapter 13. Between Reproductive Citizenship and Consumerism: Attitudes Towards Assisted Reproductive Technologies among Jewish and Arab Israeli WomenLarissa RemennickChapter 14. Ethnography, Exegesis, and Jewish Ethical Reflection: The New Reproductive Technologies in IsraelDon SeemanNotes on Contributors