God's Laboratory: Assisted Reproduction in the Andes

by Elizabeth F.S. Roberts and Jay Roberts

Book Overview

Assisted reproduction, with its test tubes, injections, and gamete donors, raises concerns about the nature of life and kinship. Yet these concerns do not take the same shape around the world. In this innovative ethnography of in vitro fertilization in Ecuador, Elizabeth F.S. Roberts explores how reproduction by way of biotechnological assistance is not only accepted but embraced despite widespread poverty and condemnation from the Catholic Church...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520270835
• ISBN13: 9780520270831
• Release Date: May 2012
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 298 Pages
• Weight: 0.98 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.9" x 8.9"