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Gamete Donation and Kinship Knowledge in Germany and Britain
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- Contents
Acknowledgements
1. Introduction
2. Three Conceptual Arrival Scenes: Comparative Vantage Point, Kinship and Knowledge, Kinship Matters
Scene 1: Knowledge-Management During Gamete Donation as Policy Problem in Britain and Germany
Scene 2: Kinship and Knowledge in Anthropology
Scene 3: What’s the Matter with Kinship?
3. Fieldwork and Data Analysis
4. Knowing Kinship-by-Donation as Parents: Reflections and Histories
4.1 What is Kinship? Characteristic Tensions of Choice, (Corporeal) Continuity, and Love
4.2 Reproductive Histories and DI as a Technology of the Last Resort
5. Clinical Knowledge-Management and Beyond: How Kinship-by-Donation Becomes Constituted in Clinics
5.1 Local Fieldwork—Local Regulations
5.2 The Medical Trajectory of Knowing Kinship-by-Donation: The WHO standard, Viruses, and Excel Sheets
5.3 The Accessible Clinical/Institutional Trajectory of Knowing Kinship-by-Donation: Sealed Envelopes, Donor Files, and a National Registry
6. Familial Knowledge-Management: Emerging Canons and Parental Reflections
6.1 Normative Canons of Knowledge-Management
6.2 Familial Moralities of Knowledge-Management
7. Familial Knowledge-Management: Everyday Practices and Emerging Relations
7.1 Getting to Know the Donor: The Constitution of Administered Relations
7.2 Of Donors and Daddies, Fathers, (Co-)Mothers, Moms, and Mommies: Naming and Terminology Work
7.3 Telling the Child
7.4 Subversive Knowledge-Management and Wayward Relations
8. Familial Knowledge-Management: Confrontations and Tactics
8.1 Resemblance-Talk: “The old folks would always say ‘Just like Daddy,’ no matter how the child looks like”
8.2 Medical History: “Not that we’re aware of”
8.3 Kinship Terminology: “Will they meet their real father?”
8.4 Not Conforming to the Reproductive Norm: “Is it true that Jonas has two moms?”
8.5 Biological Reproduction as a Confirmation of Heterosexual Love and Virility: “Well done, nice shot!”
8.6 The Child Talks: “If we have eggs in the kitchen, we also need sperm for Daddy”
9. Conclusions
9.1 National and Transnational Regulation and the Constitution of Kinship-by-Donation
9.2 Transparentization
9.3 Diverse Fields of Authoritative Knowledge-Production
9.4 Agency and Reflexive Expertise
Abbreviations
List of Figures
Bibliography
Index
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