Selective Reproduction in the 21st Century

1. Introduction: Kinds of Children
Ayo Wahlberg, Tine M. Gammeltoft

Part I. Sex Selection

2. Coping with Sex-Selective Abortions in Vietnam: An Ethnographic Study of Selective Reproduction as Emotional Experience
Trần Minh Hằng

3. The Development of Sex-Selective Reproductive Technologies Within Fertility, Inc. and the Anticipation of Lifestyle Sex Selection
Rajani Bhatia

Part II. Preventing Disease and Disability

4. Moral Adherers: Pregnant Women Undergoing Routine Prenatal Screening in Denmark
Laura Louise Heinsen

5. Moral Bearing: The Paradox of Choice, Anxiety and Responsibility in Taiwan
Li-Wen Shih

6. Selecting What? Pre-implantation Genetic Diagnosis and Screening Trajectories in Spain
Vincenzo Pavone, Sara Lafuente Funes

Part III. Selecting Traits

7. They Don’t Just Take a Random Egg: Egg Selection in the United States
Lauren Jade Martin

8. Technologies of Enchantment: Commercial Surrogacy and Egg Donation in India
Michaela Stockey-Bridge

Keywords: Social Sciences, Science and Technology Studies, Medical Anthropology, Medical Sociology, Sociology of Culture, Bioethics, Theory of Medicine/Bioethics