Biomedicalizing kinship: Sperm banks and the creation of affinity-ties

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Description: Over the past 25 years, the availability of commercialized sperm banks providing donor sperm to be used in assisted reproduction has altered public understandings of procreation as the ‘natural’ pr...
Laura Mamo
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