Embryonic Economies: The Double Reproductive Value of Stem Cells

Franklin, Sarah

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“…Imperatives for research are produced by claims that possible genetic diversity value from the past is in danger of being 'lost' to the future if scientists do not act now (Reardon, 2005). New markets for cells and tissue emerge as spaces for adding 'biovalue' proliferate and concerns over 'use-value' give way to promises of 'value-added' (Thompson, 2005(Thompson, , 2008Franklin, 2005Franklin, , 2006Waldby and Mitchell, 2006). Neoliberal politics that dismantle government services simultaneously open up the space for new kinds of capitalism: millennial capitalism, disaster capitalism, casino capitalism based on risk, apocalypticism and forecasting doom (Strange, 1997;Comaroff and Comaroff, 2001;Klima, 2002;Klein, 2007).…”

Section: Possibilitymentioning

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Anticipation: Technoscience, life, affect, temporality

2009

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One defining quality of our current moment is its characteristic state of anticipation, of thinking and living toward the future. Anticipation has epistemic value, a virtue emerging through actuarial saturation as sciences of the actual are displaced by speculative forecast. It is a politics of temporality and affect. Key dimensions are: injunction as the moral imperative to characterize and inhabit states of uncertainty; abduction as requisite tacking back and forth between futures, pasts and presents, framing templates for producing the future; optimization as the moral responsibility of citizens to secure their 'best possible futures'; preparedness as living in 'preparation for' potential trauma; and possibility as 'ratcheting up' hopefulness, especially through technoscience. Anticipation is the palpable sense that things could be (all) right if we leverage new spaces of opportunity, reconfiguring 'the possible.' We illustrate exemplary sites of anticipatory practice, especially biomedical, highlighting how such sites are gendered, increasingly implicating young girls.

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Anticipation: Technoscience, life, affect, temporality

2009

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“…Vu le peu de données empiriques disponibles en la matière, les recherches futures gagneraient certainement à examiner, dans différents contextes sociopolitiques et religieux, le point de vue des hommes impliqués dans des situations de procréation médicalement assistée afin de mieux comprendre leurs difficultés particulières et la manière dont ils vivent ces situations ainsi que l'impact que le recours aux techniques reproductives peut avoir sur eux en termes d'identité et de parenté (Culley, Hudson et Van Rooij, 2009 (Thompson, 2013;Franklin, 2006;Cooper et Waldby, 2014). Il existe par exemple encore très peu de données sur les manières dont sont recrutés les donneurs et donneuses de gamètes ainsi que sur leur profil et leurs motivations (Steinbrook, 2006;Haimes, Taylor et Turkmendag, 2012).…”

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Genre, parenté et techniques de reproduction assistée : bilan et perspectives après 30 ans de recherche

Courduriès

Herbrand

2014

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International audienceThis volume of Enfances Familles Générations (Childhood Families Generations) looks at the current issues raised by the advent and proliferation of assisted reproductive technologies with a particular focus on kinship and gender. In the contemporary globalised world, a range of reproductive possibilities are now available, many of which raise important socio-anthropological questions related to the balance of power inherent in such interactions, the different practices and regulations involved in the delivery of ART and the individual and cultural significance of these practices. These issues have generated a rich and extensive body of literature over the past thirty years, particularly in English language scholarship. This introductory paper provides a reminder of these debates and seeks to foster dialogue with respect to work across different displines, by underscoring their respective contributions, particularly those in English- and French-language literature. Beginning with the summarizing of the major issues and contributions stemming from ART studies with respect to gender and parenthood, we shall underline the issues that are yet to be resolved and that, in our opinion, warrant further investigation. The main line of our argument is that, based on available literature and on social science research, emphasis must be placed on gender as inextricably linked to the experience and the study of assisted reproductive technologies.Résumé Ce numéro d'Enfances Familles Générations propose de se pencher sur les problématiques actuelles soulevées par les techniques de reproduction assistée (TRA) au regard des questions de parenté et de genre. Si, dans un monde globalisé, diverses possibilités reproductives sont désormais accessibles, celles-ci soulèvent de nombreuses questions socioanthropologiques du point de vue des rapports de pouvoir qu'elles engendrent, des pratiques et des régulations parfois très différentes dont elles font l'objet, ainsi que des significations individuelles et culturelles qui leur sont attribuées. Ces questions ont donné lieu à une littérature riche et abondante au cours des trente dernières années, en particulier dans le monde anglo-saxon. Cet article introductif est ainsi l'occasion de faire dialoguer davantage, en soulignant leurs apports respectifs, des travaux relevant de traditions différentes, en particulier dans les mondes francophones et anglophones. À partir de ce bilan des questionnements majeurs qu'a suscités l'étude des TRA dans les domaines du genre et de la parenté, nous soulignons les enjeux qui restent en suspens et qui mériteraient selon nous de faire l'objet de plus amples investigations. Le fil conducteur de notre propos, sur la base de la littérature disponible et des enquêtes menées jusqu'ici en sciences sociales, est d'insister sur la dimension du genre comme inextricable de l'expérience et de l'étude des techniques de reproduction assistée

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“…Policies governing the use of human reproductive tissue are embedded in ethical concerns over the appropriate limits to be placed upon the exploitation of ''biovalue'', or the commercial exploitation of ''life itself'' [23,20,81]. In that human reproductive tissue is both involved in assisted reproduction and has value as a commodity, its regulatory boundaries are unique, permeable and contested.…”

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“…The apprehension of complexity and agency brought into being by feminist research into other areas of assisted reproduction as sketched out above is lacking. Thus, feminist ethnographies which focus upon the understandings of those involved and how these lead to the creation of new meanings demonstrate the operation of a recontextualisation and renegotiation of the issues surrounding women in relation to reprogenetics [56,57,23].…”

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Regulating Reprogenetics: Strategic Sacralisation and Semantic Massage

Mackenzie

2007

Health Care Anal

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Abstract:This paper forms part of the feminist critique of the regulatory consequences of biomedicine's systematic exclusion of the role of women's bodies in the development of reprogenetic technologies. I suggest that strategic use of notions of the sacred to decontextualise and delimit disagreement fosters this marginalisation. Here conceptions of the sacred and sacralisation afford a means by which pragmatic consensus over regulation may be achieved, through the deployment of a bricolage of dense images associated with cultural loyalties to solidify support or exclude contradictory elements. Hence an explicit renegotiation of the symbolic order structuring salient debates is necessary to disrupt and enrich the entrenched and exclusionary dominant discourse over reprogenetic regulation. I draw upon previous analyses of strategic rhetoric associated with the regulation of infertility treatment and embryo research in the United Kingdom, the cultural anthropology of biomedicine and feminist ethnographies of reprogenetics to illustrate these claims.

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Embryonic Economies: The Double Reproductive Value of Stem Cells

Cited by 87 publications

References 65 publications

Anticipation: Technoscience, life, affect, temporality

Anticipation: Technoscience, life, affect, temporality

Genre, parenté et techniques de reproduction assistée : bilan et perspectives après 30 ans de recherche

Regulating Reprogenetics: Strategic Sacralisation and Semantic Massage

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