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1 online resource (xii, 207 pages). |
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polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
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Medical anthropology: health, inequality, and social justice
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Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction: adoption in the age of globalization and biotechnology -- The ethical market: between reproduction and humanitarianism -- Double movements: international law as transparency device -- Valuing bodies: somatic ethics in the biomedicalization of adoption -- Grievable lives: the adoptee and the child migrant -- Economies of return: openness, knowledge, relations -- Conclusion: legitimating life. |
| Summary |
The phenomenon of transnational adoption is changing in the age of globalization and biotechnology. In Legitimating Life, Sonja van Wichelen boldly describes how contemporary justifications of cross-border adoption navigate between child welfare, humanitarianism, family making, capitalism, science, and health. Focusing on contemporary institutional practices of adoption in the United States and the Netherlands, she traces how professionals, bureaucrats, lawyers, politicians, social workers, and experts legitimate a practice that became progressively controversial. Throughout the past few decades transnational adoption transformed from a humanitarian response to a means of making family. In this new manifestation, life becomes necessarily economized. While push and pull factors, demand and supply dynamics, and competition between agencies set the stage for the globalization of adoption, international conventions, scientific knowledge, and the language of human rights universalized the phenomenon. Van Wichelen argues that such technoscientific legitimations of a globalizing practice are rearticulating colonial logics of race and civilization. Yet, she also lets us see beyond the biopolitical project and into alternative ways of making kin. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Intercountry adoption.
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Intercountry adoption. |
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Human reproductive technology -- Social aspects.
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Human reproductive technology -- Social aspects. |
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Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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Assisted reproductive technology. |
| Other Form: |
Print version: Wichelen, Sonja van. Legitimating life. New Brunswick, New Jersey : Rutgers University Press, [2018] 9781978800526 (DLC) 2018008421 |
| ISBN |
9781978800557 electronic book |
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1978800533 electronic book |
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9781978800533 electronic book |
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197880055X electronic book |
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9781978800526 hardcover ; alkaline paper |
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9781978800519 (paperback) (alkaline paper) |
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1978800517 |
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