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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 184545040X
• ISBN13: 9781845450403
• Release Date: May 2005
• Publisher: Berghahn Books
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 0.91 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"