© 2017 Anna OZHIGANOVA
2017 № 2 (14)
Key words: Assisted Reproductive Technologies, Bioethical Bricolage, Local Moral Worlds, Moral Pioneers, Reproductive Choice, Stratified Reproduction
Abstract: The collective monograph “Assisted Reproductive Technologies in the Third Phase. Global Encounters and Emerging Moral Worlds”, edited by Kate Hampshire and Bob Simpson in 2015, examines the social consequences of the global spread of Assisted Reproductive Technologies. Based on scrupulous ethnographic work, these studies show how ART reception is carried out in different social and cultural contexts: in the local moral worlds of Islam, under conditions of stratified reproduction in economically poor countries and in ethno-cultural communities of immigrants from South Asia in the UK.
Review on the book “Assisted Reproductive Technologies in the Third Phase. Global Encounters and Emerging Moral Worlds”, edited by Kate Hampshire and Bob Simpson, N.Y., Oxford: Berghahn, 2015.
The authors refer to the terms “local moral worlds” (Kleinman 1997) and “moral pioneers” (Rapp 1988). They also proposed the term “bioethical bricolage” to analyze how ART reception in different cultures inspires people to experiments and bioethical innovations, and provokes the emergence of new meanings in their notions of health and well-being, kinship and inheritance. This phenomenon has fully manifested itself in recent years, when, according to the authors, ART entered a third, global, stage of development. This phase began in the late 2000s and is characterized by a rapid expansion of access to the New Reproductive Technologies for the people all over the world.
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