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Good Quality The Routinization of Sperm Banking in China

Wahlberg Ayo
Innbundet / 2018 / Engelsk

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ISBN
9780520297777
Publisert
2018-04-03
Utgiver
Vendor
University of California Press
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229 mm
Bredde
152 mm
Dybde
23 mm
Aldersnivå
P, 06
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Product language
Engelsk
Format
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Innbundet

Forfatter
Wahlberg Ayo

Biographical note

Ayo Wahlberg is Professor MSO in the Department of Anthropology, University of Copenhagen. He is coeditor of Selective Reproduction in the Twenty-First Century and Southern Medicine for Southern People: Vietnamese Medicine in the Making.

Good Quality The Routinization of Sperm Banking in China

Wahlberg Ayo
Innbundet / 2018 / Engelsk
Wahlberg Ayo
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"...Ayo Wahlberg provides a rich and fine-grained ethnographic account of assisted reproduction in China, focusing on how state population politics and sociocultural configurations have shaped the practice of sperm banking. . . . <i>Good Quality</i> makes a significant contribution to anthropological studies of assisted reproduction, science and technology studies, and studies of China’s reproductive politics. While Wahlberg emphasizes that his focus is on the making of sperm banking, this important book should encourage further studies on various aspects of assisted reproduction in China, such as the experience of infertile couples and the complex decision making leading to the practice of assisted reproduction."

Medical Anthropology Quarterly

"<i>Good Quality</i>, a detailed study of state-controlled sperm banking in China, is a wonderful contribution to a literature that understands birth planning in China as encompassing a wide set of practices. . . . This volume should appeal to scholars of reproduction and those who study China’s modernizing processes. Its accessible writing will make it available to both graduate and undergraduate students."

Social Forces

"<i>Good Quality</i> offers fresh and engaging data, and a novel analytic approach and set of arguments about a rarely studied subject. The author’s ideas are delivered in clear, lively prose infused with a sly sense of humor and deep empathy for his subjects. <i>Good Quality</i> represents, in short, some of the best that anthropology can offer to the more mainstream fields of population study. It is highly recommended for research and graduate and undergraduate teaching alike.”

Population and Development Review

From its crude and uneasy beginnings thirty years ago, Chinese sperm banking has become a routine part of China’s pervasive and restrictive reproductive complex. Today, there are sperm banks in each of China’s twenty-two provinces, the biggest of which screen some three thousand to four thousand potential donors each year. Given the estimated one to two million azoospermic men--those who are unable to produce their own sperm--the demand remains insatiable. China’s twenty-two sperm banks cannot keep up, spurring sperm bank directors to publicly lament chronic shortages and even warn of a national ‘sperm crisis’ (jingzi weiji).  Good Quality explores the issues behind the crisis, including declining sperm quality in the country due to environmental pollution, as well as a chronic national shortage of donors. In doing so, Wahlberg outlines the specific style of Chinese sperm banking that has emerged, shaped by the particular cultural, juridical, economic and social configurations that make up China’s restrictive reproductive complex. Good Quality shows how this high-throughput style shapes the ways in which men experience donation and how sperm is made available to couples who can afford it.
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List of Illustrations ix Acknowledgments xi List of Abbreviations xv Introduction: Sperm Crisis 1 1. The Birth of Assisted Reproductive Technology in China 29 2. Improving Population Quality 58 3. Exposed Biologies 77 4. Mobilizing Sperm Donors 100 5. Making Quality Auditable 131 6. Borrowing Sperm 157 Conclusion: Routinization 188 Coda 192 Notes 195 References 205
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"The scholarship in this book is superior. Ayo Wahlberg has devoted thousands of hours in the field to collecting and analyzing this fascinating data. His refusal to take up the often-belabored globalization framework for understanding reproductive technologies in China is truly provocative." —Liberty Barnes, author of Conceiving Masculinity: Male Infertility, Medicine, and Identity "Ayo Wahlberg offers a fascinating analysis of sperm banking in China, situated in the political history of China’s restrictive reproductive policies. A must-read for scholars of medicine and anyone interested in reproductive technologies.” —Rene Almeling, author of Sex Cells: The Medical Market for Eggs and Sperm
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"...Ayo Wahlberg provides a rich and fine-grained ethnographic account of assisted reproduction in China, focusing on how state population politics and sociocultural configurations have shaped the practice of sperm banking. . . . <i>Good Quality</i> makes a significant contribution to anthropological studies of assisted reproduction, science and technology studies, and studies of China’s reproductive politics. While Wahlberg emphasizes that his focus is on the making of sperm banking, this important book should encourage further studies on various aspects of assisted reproduction in China, such as the experience of infertile couples and the complex decision making leading to the practice of assisted reproduction."

Medical Anthropology Quarterly

"<i>Good Quality</i>, a detailed study of state-controlled sperm banking in China, is a wonderful contribution to a literature that understands birth planning in China as encompassing a wide set of practices. . . . This volume should appeal to scholars of reproduction and those who study China’s modernizing processes. Its accessible writing will make it available to both graduate and undergraduate students."

Social Forces

"<i>Good Quality</i> offers fresh and engaging data, and a novel analytic approach and set of arguments about a rarely studied subject. The author’s ideas are delivered in clear, lively prose infused with a sly sense of humor and deep empathy for his subjects. <i>Good Quality</i> represents, in short, some of the best that anthropology can offer to the more mainstream fields of population study. It is highly recommended for research and graduate and undergraduate teaching alike.”

Population and Development Review

From its crude and uneasy beginnings thirty years ago, Chinese sperm banking has become a routine part of China’s pervasive and restrictive reproductive complex. Today, there are sperm banks in each of China’s twenty-two provinces, the biggest of which screen some three thousand to four thousand potential donors each year. Given the estimated one to two million azoospermic men--those who are unable to produce their own sperm--the demand remains insatiable. China’s twenty-two sperm banks cannot keep up, spurring sperm bank directors to publicly lament chronic shortages and even warn of a national ‘sperm crisis’ (jingzi weiji).  Good Quality explores the issues behind the crisis, including declining sperm quality in the country due to environmental pollution, as well as a chronic national shortage of donors. In doing so, Wahlberg outlines the specific style of Chinese sperm banking that has emerged, shaped by the particular cultural, juridical, economic and social configurations that make up China’s restrictive reproductive complex. Good Quality shows how this high-throughput style shapes the ways in which men experience donation and how sperm is made available to couples who can afford it.
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List of Illustrations ix Acknowledgments xi List of Abbreviations xv Introduction: Sperm Crisis 1 1. The Birth of Assisted Reproductive Technology in China 29 2. Improving Population Quality 58 3. Exposed Biologies 77 4. Mobilizing Sperm Donors 100 5. Making Quality Auditable 131 6. Borrowing Sperm 157 Conclusion: Routinization 188 Coda 192 Notes 195 References 205
Les mer
"The scholarship in this book is superior. Ayo Wahlberg has devoted thousands of hours in the field to collecting and analyzing this fascinating data. His refusal to take up the often-belabored globalization framework for understanding reproductive technologies in China is truly provocative." —Liberty Barnes, author of Conceiving Masculinity: Male Infertility, Medicine, and Identity "Ayo Wahlberg offers a fascinating analysis of sperm banking in China, situated in the political history of China’s restrictive reproductive policies. A must-read for scholars of medicine and anyone interested in reproductive technologies.” —Rene Almeling, author of Sex Cells: The Medical Market for Eggs and Sperm
Les mer

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9780520297777
Publisert
2018-04-03
Utgiver
Vendor
University of California Press
Høyde
229 mm
Bredde
152 mm
Dybde
23 mm
Aldersnivå
P, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet

Forfatter
Wahlberg Ayo

Biographical note

Ayo Wahlberg is Professor MSO in the Department of Anthropology, University of Copenhagen. He is coeditor of Selective Reproduction in the Twenty-First Century and Southern Medicine for Southern People: Vietnamese Medicine in the Making.

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