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Biological Relatives: IVF, Stem Cells and the Future of Kinship

This book, of approximately 350 pages in length, took seven years to write and is based on extensive ethnographic fieldwork as well as original historical research. It extends and develops Franklin’s previous analyses of reproductive biomedicine and developmental biology at the ‘IVF-stem cell interface’, using this context of contemporary technological innovation to offer a new theory of ‘biological relativity’. The scope of it is correspondingly very broad, offering new theoretical models of gender and kinship as well as of reproduction. Using IVF as a case study, it synthesises feminist, anthropological and sociological insights into the relationship between biology and technology.