Whose Child is This? The Problem of Constructing and Deconstructing Kinship Bonds on the Donor Gamete Market
<p>Invention and subsequent development of human reproduction technologies allow people to manage reproductive risks, overcome infertility and widen alternative reproductive choice. Medicine has given men and women the access to programmes of saving biogenetic material, DNA-tests for identifyi...
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Russian Academy of Sciences, Federal Center of Theoretical and Applied Sociology
2020-12-01
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| description | <p>Invention and subsequent development of human reproduction technologies allow people to manage reproductive risks, overcome infertility and widen alternative reproductive choice. Medicine has given men and women the access to programmes of saving biogenetic material, DNA-tests for identifying paternity and services for creating a genetic passport which identifies potential diseases and genetic peculiarities. However, assisted reproductive technologies, such as donorship of sex sells and surrogate motherhood, are violating the familiar integrity of reproductive process and changing the usual perception of kinship as sharing of biological substance. A distinguishing feature of the market for gamete donation and surrogate motherhood lies in the importance of both construction and deconstruction of kinship between donors, recipients of reproductive goods and services and a baby, who is born with the help of the ART methods (assisted reproductive technologies).<br>Basing on the results of sociological research of donor sex sells market, the author of the article shows us how members of reproductive business coordinate different parts of their work (technical, emotional, legal, financial etc.), in order to solve the controversial problem of defining kinship between the participants of the donor programmes. On the one hand, medical specialists and representatives of reproductive agencies take part in destroying the kinship between a gamete donor and a baby, and on the other hand, they participate in creating and supporting kin ties between parents received donor sex sells and a baby, who doesn’t have common gens with them. Empirical study base consists of expert interviews with the employees of medical clinics and reproductive agencies in Moscow and Saint Petersburg.</p> |
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| spelling | doaj.art-e84fc9b7394b441ba56f57d649d4a51f2022-12-21T18:15:18ZengRussian Academy of Sciences, Federal Center of Theoretical and Applied SociologyИнтеракция. Интервью. Интерпретация2307-20752020-12-01124739210.19181/inter.2020.12.4.65913Whose Child is This? The Problem of Constructing and Deconstructing Kinship Bonds on the Donor Gamete MarketTatyana Yurievna Larkina0Russia<p>Invention and subsequent development of human reproduction technologies allow people to manage reproductive risks, overcome infertility and widen alternative reproductive choice. Medicine has given men and women the access to programmes of saving biogenetic material, DNA-tests for identifying paternity and services for creating a genetic passport which identifies potential diseases and genetic peculiarities. However, assisted reproductive technologies, such as donorship of sex sells and surrogate motherhood, are violating the familiar integrity of reproductive process and changing the usual perception of kinship as sharing of biological substance. A distinguishing feature of the market for gamete donation and surrogate motherhood lies in the importance of both construction and deconstruction of kinship between donors, recipients of reproductive goods and services and a baby, who is born with the help of the ART methods (assisted reproductive technologies).<br>Basing on the results of sociological research of donor sex sells market, the author of the article shows us how members of reproductive business coordinate different parts of their work (technical, emotional, legal, financial etc.), in order to solve the controversial problem of defining kinship between the participants of the donor programmes. On the one hand, medical specialists and representatives of reproductive agencies take part in destroying the kinship between a gamete donor and a baby, and on the other hand, they participate in creating and supporting kin ties between parents received donor sex sells and a baby, who doesn’t have common gens with them. Empirical study base consists of expert interviews with the employees of medical clinics and reproductive agencies in Moscow and Saint Petersburg.</p>https://www.inter-fnisc.ru/index.php/inter/article/view/5913/5738new kinship studiesassisted reproductive technologiesgamete donationmarket for gamete donationkinship makingfertility treatment |
| spellingShingle | Tatyana Yurievna Larkina Whose Child is This? The Problem of Constructing and Deconstructing Kinship Bonds on the Donor Gamete Market Интеракция. Интервью. Интерпретация new kinship studies assisted reproductive technologies gamete donation market for gamete donation kinship making fertility treatment |
| title | Whose Child is This? The Problem of Constructing and Deconstructing Kinship Bonds on the Donor Gamete Market |
| title_full | Whose Child is This? The Problem of Constructing and Deconstructing Kinship Bonds on the Donor Gamete Market |
| title_fullStr | Whose Child is This? The Problem of Constructing and Deconstructing Kinship Bonds on the Donor Gamete Market |
| title_full_unstemmed | Whose Child is This? The Problem of Constructing and Deconstructing Kinship Bonds on the Donor Gamete Market |
| title_short | Whose Child is This? The Problem of Constructing and Deconstructing Kinship Bonds on the Donor Gamete Market |
| title_sort | whose child is this the problem of constructing and deconstructing kinship bonds on the donor gamete market |
| topic | new kinship studies assisted reproductive technologies gamete donation market for gamete donation kinship making fertility treatment |
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