Embryo Adoption
Image: Two families connected through embryo adoption featured in People Magazine's December 17, 2012 issue: https://people.com/archive/forever-bonded-one-baby-two-families-vol-78-no-25/
Writing
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My book project, Ex Utero: Political Lives of Frozen Embryos, draws upon a decade of ethnographic research with Christian embryo adoption proponents and participants in the United States. This will be the first book-length ethnography on the practice of embryo adoption.
The open access research article "'Our family portrait is a little hint of Heaven': Race, Religion, and Selective Reproduction in US 'Embryo Adoption'" is featured in a special issue of Reproductive Biomedicine & Society Online co-edited by Rayna Rapp and Severine Mathieu. This article makes a case for how race/racism and religion intersect to shape how white evangelical users of assisted and selective reproduction technologies use them. The special issue is the result of a two-year workshop led by Rayna Rapp and Severine Mathieu called "Franco-American Reproductive Technologies Workshop." Read here.
The research article "Making the Ethnic Embryo: Enacting Race in US Embryo Adoption" in Medical Anthropology is published in a special issue on race and reproduction. This article examines how embryo adoption professionals and participants produce 'ethnicity' as inhering in frozen embryos slated for donation. Read here.
The research article "Saving Embryos in Stem Cell Science and Christian Adoption" is included in a December 2018 special issue in New Genetics & Society on ontologies of the living within biobanking. This article examines the saving ethics and practices that govern the repurposing of leftover embryos in the US. Read here.
The chapter "Waiting: The Redemption of Frozen Embryos through Embryo Adoption and Stem Cell Research" is included in the edited collection Anthropology of the Fetus: Biology, Culture, and Society published by Berghahn Books in 2017. Read here.
My book project, Ex Utero: Political Lives of Frozen Embryos, draws upon a decade of ethnographic research with Christian embryo adoption proponents and participants in the United States. This will be the first book-length ethnography on the practice of embryo adoption.
The open access research article "'Our family portrait is a little hint of Heaven': Race, Religion, and Selective Reproduction in US 'Embryo Adoption'" is featured in a special issue of Reproductive Biomedicine & Society Online co-edited by Rayna Rapp and Severine Mathieu. This article makes a case for how race/racism and religion intersect to shape how white evangelical users of assisted and selective reproduction technologies use them. The special issue is the result of a two-year workshop led by Rayna Rapp and Severine Mathieu called "Franco-American Reproductive Technologies Workshop." Read here.
The research article "Making the Ethnic Embryo: Enacting Race in US Embryo Adoption" in Medical Anthropology is published in a special issue on race and reproduction. This article examines how embryo adoption professionals and participants produce 'ethnicity' as inhering in frozen embryos slated for donation. Read here.
The research article "Saving Embryos in Stem Cell Science and Christian Adoption" is included in a December 2018 special issue in New Genetics & Society on ontologies of the living within biobanking. This article examines the saving ethics and practices that govern the repurposing of leftover embryos in the US. Read here.
The chapter "Waiting: The Redemption of Frozen Embryos through Embryo Adoption and Stem Cell Research" is included in the edited collection Anthropology of the Fetus: Biology, Culture, and Society published by Berghahn Books in 2017. Read here.