Title: Kin, gene, community : reproductive technologies among Jewish Israelis
Abstract: List of Tables and Figures Introduction: Reproductive Technologies among Jewish Israelis: Setting the Ground Daphna Birenbaum-Carmeli and Yoram S. Carmeli PART I: KIN: REPRODUCTIVE TECHNOLOGIES AND THE QUEST FOR BIOGENETIC PARENTHOOD Chapter 1. The Contribution of Israeli Researchers to Reproductive Medicine: Fertility Experts' Perspectives Shlomo Mashiach, Daphna Birenbaum-Carmeli, Roy Mashiach and Martha Dirnfeld Chapter 2. The Regulation of Preimplantation Genetic Diagnosis for Sibling Donors in Israel, Germany and England: A Comparative Look at Balancing Risks and Benefits Yael Hashiloni-Dolev and Shiri Shkedi Chapter 3. The Man in the Sperm: Kinship and Fatherhood in Light of Male Infertility in Israel Helene Goldberg Chapter 4. Controlling Chaos: the Case of State-Controlled Surrogacy Elly Teman Chapter 5. Adoption and Assisted reproduction Technologies: A Comparative Reading of Israeli Policies Daphna Birenbaum-Carmeli and Yoram S. Carmeli PART II: GENE: REPRODUCTIVE TECHNOLOGIES AND THE QUEST FOR THE PERFECT CHILD Chapter 6. Genetic Testing and Screening in Religious Groups: Perspectives of Jewish Haredi Communities Barbara Prainsack and Gil Siegal Chapter 7. Ultrasonic Challenges to Pronatalism Tsipi Ivry Chapter 8. Abortion Committees as Agents of Eugenics: Medical and Public Views on Selective Abortion following Mild or Likely Fetal Pathology Nitzan Rimon-Zarfaty and Aviad Raz Chapter 9. Cultural Values in Action: The Israeli Approach to Human Cloning Gali Ben-Or and Vardit Ravitsky PART III: COMMUNITY: A SELF-PORTRAIT WITH TECHNOLOGY Chapter 10. Art, Community and Beyond: Human Embryonic Stem Cell Research in Israel Interviews with Prof. Nissim Benvenisty and Prof. karl Skorecki Interviewer: Daphna Birenbaum-Carmeli Chapter 11. Medicine and the State. The Medicalization of Reproduction in Israel Yali Hashash-Daniel Chapter 12. The Mirth of the Clinic: The Banality of Conception in an Israeli Fertility Clinic Susan M. Kahn Chapter 13. Between Reproductive Citizenship and Consumerism: Attitudes Towards Assisted Reproductive Technologies among Jewish and Arab Israeli Women Larissa Remennick Chapter 14. Ethnography, Exegesis, and Jewish Ethical Reflection: The New Reproductive Technologies in Israel Don Seeman Notes on Contributors
Publication Year: 2010
Publication Date: 2010-01-01
Language: en
Type: book
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