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Making Multiple Babies: Anticipatory Regimes of Assisted Reproduction [Hardback]

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"Human beings have been producing more twins, triplets, and quadruplets than ever before, due to the expansion of medically assisted conception. This book analyzes the anticipatory regimes of making multiple babies. With archival documents, participant observation, in-depth interviews, and registry data, this book traces the global and local governance of the assisted reproductive technologies (ARTs) used to tackle multiple pregnancy since the 1970s, highlighting the early promotion of single embryo transfer in Belgium and Japan and the making of the world's most lenient guidelines in Taiwan"--

Human beings have been producing more twins, triplets, and quadruplets than ever before, due to the expansion of medically assisted conception. This book analyzes the anticipatory regimes of making multiple babies. With archival documents, participant observation, in-depth interviews, and registry data, this book traces the global and local governance of the assisted reproductive technologies (ARTs) used to tackle multiple pregnancy since the 1970s, highlighting the early promotion of single embryo transfer in Belgium and Japan and the making of the world’s most lenient guidelines in Taiwan.

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This book is a fascinating and insightful read The author presents the concept of "anticipatory governance" as a means of exploring the evolving regulation of IVF. This is very useful and something I will certainly apply in my own work. Andrea Whittaker, Monash University

List of Illustrations
viii
Acknowledgments xi
List of Abbreviations
xv
Introduction 1(22)
Chapter 1 Multiple Embryo Transfer: Anticipating Success and Risk
23(34)
Chapter 2 eSET: Anticipating New Success and Re-networking IVF
57(31)
Chapter 3 When IVF Became a Nationalist Glory
88(20)
Chapter 4 The Making of the World's Most Lenient Guideline
108(21)
Chapter 5 Optimization within Disrupted Reproduction
129(24)
Chapter 6 Women Encounter Fetal Reduction
153(19)
Chapter 7 An-Tai: Active Maternal Body Work
172(15)
Conclusion 187(9)
References 196(39)
Index 235
Chia-Ling Wu is Professor of Sociology at the National Taiwan University. She has served as the editor-in-chief of East Asian Science, Technology and Society (EASTS), Journal of Womens and Gender Studies, and Taiwanese Sociology. She co-founded Birth Reform Alliance in Taiwan, an NGO aiming to establish better reproductive care in Taiwan.