Selective reproduction in the 21st century / Ayo Wahlberg, Tine M. Gammeltoft, editors.

Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2018]

xvii, 198 pages : illustrations (some colour) ; 22 cm

Introduction : kinds of children / Ayo Wahlberg and Tine M. Gammeltoft -- Part 1. Sex selection. Coping with sex-selective abortions in Vietnam : an ethnographic study of selective reproduction as emotional experience / Tran Minh Hang -- The development of sex-selective reproductive technologies within Fertility, Inc. and the anticipation of lifestyle sex selection / Rajani Bhatia. Part 2. Preventing disease and disability. Moral adherers : pregnant women undergoing routine prenatal screening in Denmark / Laura Louise Heinsen -- Moral bearing : the paradox of choice, anxiety and responsibility in Taiwan / Li-Wen Shih -- Selecting what? Pre-implantation genetic diagnosis and screening trajectories in Spain / Vincenzo Pavone and Sara Lafuente Funes. Part 3. Selecting trairs. They don't just take a random egg : egg selection in the United States / Lauren Jade Martin -- Technologies of enchantment : commercial surrogacy and egg donation in India / Michaela Stockey-Bridge.

Includes bibliographical references and index.