... an important contribution to the growing field of social studies of infertility treatment ... Assisted reproductive technologies (ARTs) are now routine throughout the world, and it is crucial that we learn more about how they gain a foothold in particular countries.
Ayo Wahlberg, University of Copenhagen This is a splendid piece of scholarly ... Read morework, and demonstrates the discipline of anthropology and of fine-grained ethnographic research and critically reflexive analysis at its best. It fills a much needed gap in the anthropology of Thailand and in the provision of solid ethnographic data on the topic of assisted reproduction more generally.
Graham Fordham, Australian National University [This book] is scholarly and extremely well researched but is also very readable and beautifully written ... It is accessible but also respectful to all previous work which it engages with, and summarizes, very well.
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