A Companion to the Anthropology of Reproductive Medicine and Technology

A Companion to the Anthropology of Reproductive Medicine and Technology
Contents
Notes on Editors
Notes on Contributors
Acknowledgments
INTRODUCTION
Tracing the Arc: The Anthropology of Reproductive Medicine and Technology
SECTION I
Reproductive Practitioners and Paradigms
	1 Into Doctors’ Hands: Obstetric Praxis in Anthropology
	2 Obstetrics and Midwifery in the United States: The Tensions between
the Technocratic and Midwifery Models of Maternity Care
	3 The Promise of Interculturalidad: Contestations of Culture
for Indigenous Birth Care
	4 On the Move: Maternal Reproductive Healthcare Practitioners
in Global Circuits
	5 COVID-19 and Reproductive Health: Maternity Care in
Disruptive Times
SECTION II
Global Reproductive Health Interventions
	6 The Global Safe Motherhood Initiative’s “Unintended Consequences”
	7 Counted: Understanding the Problem, Perception, and Reaction to
Global Maternal Mortality
	8 The Future of Reproductive Health Financing
	9 Reproduction and the Immigrant Experience
	10 Reproduction in the Time of War: A Review of Ethnographic Studies
from the United States’ War on Terror and Beyond
SECTION III
Reproductive Justice: Extending and Rupturing Old Boundaries
	11 Anthropologies of Men, Masculinities, and Reproduction
	12 Queer Reproductive Futures
	13 Inconceivable: Cisnormativity and the Management of Trans and
Intersex Reproduction
	14 Race, Racism, and Reproductive Justice
	15 Toward Environmental Reproductive Justice
	16 Cripping Reproduction: The Intersections of Pregnancy and Disability
SECTION IV
Reproductive Life Course: Mapping More than Just Birth
	17 Menstrual Materiality: Anthropological Mappings from Menstrual
Taboos to the FemCare Industry
	18 The Substance of Sperm
	19 Hormonal Contraception: From Demographic Histories to Pleasurable
Futures?
	20 Anthropology of Abortion
	21 Vaccines, Reproduction, and the Life Course
	22 Anthropological Explorations of Women’s Reproductive Cancers
SECTION V
(Re)Producing the Future: Sociality of Reproductive Technology and Medicine
	23 What’s New about New Reproductive Technologies?
	24 Conceptualizing Surrogacy
	25 The Egg Freezing Trifecta: Medical,
Elective, and Transgender Fertility Preservation
	26 CRISPR Enters the Fertility Clinic
	27 Epigenetics and the Anthropology of Reproduction
	28 Reproductive Futures
CONCLUSION
Aab Kahan?: Whither the Anthropology of Reproduction?
AFTERWORD
Reproducing on an Impaired Planet
Index
EULA