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Paperback. How do affected families, clinics, and regulators deal with information about gamete donors and the donation itself? Addressing these questions in Germany and Britain, this ethnography makes a comparative contribution to the empirical and theoretical analysis of kin-formation and social change. Series: Eigene und Fremde Welten. Num Pages: 383 pages, colour illustrations, colour illustrations, figures. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 1DFG; HPQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 25. Weight in Grams: 476.
Openness about sperm and egg donation and the regulation of donor anonymity or non-anonymity are new phenomena. How do affected families, clinics, and regulators deal with information about gamete donors and the donation itself? And how does this knowledge management contribute to the creation and enactment of kinship? Addressing these questions in Germany and Britain, this ethnography makes a comparative contribution to the empirical and theoretical analysis of kin-formation and social change. In (K)information, Maren Klotz presents a contemporary renegotiation of the values of privacy, information-sharing, and connectedness as they relate to the social, clinical, and regulatory management of kinship ... Read more
Openness about sperm and egg donation and the regulation of donor anonymity or non-anonymity are new phenomena. How do affected families, clinics, and regulators deal with information about gamete donors and the donation itself? And how does this knowledge management contribute to the creation and enactment of kinship? Addressing these questions in Germany and Britain, this ethnography makes a comparative contribution to the empirical and theoretical analysis of kin-formation and social change. In (K)information, Maren Klotz presents a contemporary renegotiation of the values of privacy, information-sharing, and connectedness as they relate to the social, clinical, and regulatory management of kinship ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Campus Verlag Germany
Number of pages
383
Condition
New
Series
Eigene und Fremde Welten
Number of Pages
383
Place of Publication
Frankfurt, Germany
ISBN
9783593500676
SKU
V9783593500676
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About Maren Klotz
Maren Klotz is a senior lecturer in the Department of European Ethnology at the Humboldt University Berlin. She is coeditor of Reproductive Technologies as Global Form: Ethnographies of Knowledge, Practices, and Transnational Encounters.
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