Making Multiple Babies

Anticipatory Regimes of Assisted Reproduction

Chia-Ling Wu

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English

Berghahn Books
01 January 2025

Infertility & fertilization

Series: Fertility, Reproduction and Sexuality: Social and Cultural Perspectives

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.

By: Chia-Ling Wu
Imprint: Berghahn Books
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
ISBN: 9781805397489
ISBN 10: 1805397486
Series: Fertility, Reproduction and Sexuality: Social and Cultural Perspectives
Pages: 264
Publication Date: 01 January 2025
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

List of Illustrations Acknowledgments List of Abbreviations Introduction Chapter 1. Multiple Embryo Transfer: Anticipating Success and Risk Chapter 2. eSET: Anticipating New Success and Re-Networking IVF Chapter 3. When IVF Became a Nationalist Glory Chapter 4. The Making of the World’s Most Lenient Guideline Chapter 5. Optimization within Disrupted Reproduction Chapter 6. Women Encounter Fetal Reduction Chapter 7. An-Tai: Active Maternal Body Work Conclusion References Index

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 Women’s and Gender Studies, and Taiwanese Sociology. She co-founded Birth Reform Alliance in Taiwan, an NGO aiming to establish better reproductive care in Taiwan.

Reviews for Making Multiple Babies: Anticipatory Regimes of Assisted Reproduction

“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