Nameless Relations: Anonymity, Melanesia and Reproductive Gift Exchange Between British Ova Donors and Recipients

by Monica Konrad

Book Overview

Based on the author's fieldwork at assisted conception clinics in England in the mid-1990s, this is the first ethnographic study of the new procreative practices of anonymous ova and embryo donation. Giving voice to both groups of women participating in the demanding donation experience - the donors on the one side and the ever-hopeful IVF recipients on the other - Konrad shows how one dimension of the new reproductive technologies involves an unfamiliar...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 157181647X
• ISBN13: 9781571816474
• Release Date: May 2005
• Publisher: Berghahn Books
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.27 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"