ABSTRACT

This book explores the issues that surround medically assisted reproduction. It addresses the place of destiny, including how to think about individual destinies in an age of increasingly accessible gene sequencing paired with a growing link between procreation and prediction.

part I|49 pages

Questions of Origin

chapter |2 pages

Introduction to Part I

chapter One|4 pages

The gift of life

chapter Two|4 pages

The child explorer

chapter Three|6 pages

Why a child at all costs?

chapter Four|8 pages

Sexuality and procreation

chapter Five|4 pages

The father in procreation

chapter Six|5 pages

Being another

chapter Seven|5 pages

New modes of origin

chapter Eight|7 pages

Death in procreation

part II|36 pages

Questions of Difference

chapter |2 pages

Introduction to Part II

chapter Nine|9 pages

Donor insemination

chapter Ten|5 pages

Same-sex procreation

chapter Eleven|7 pages

The child who comes from the cold

chapter Twelve|8 pages

A desire to clone

part III|45 pages

Questions of Destiny

chapter |2 pages

Introduction to Part III

chapter Thirteen|5 pages

A present-day oracle

chapter Fourteen|7 pages

The tragedies of predictions

chapter Fifteen|8 pages

The uncertainty of predictions

chapter Sixteen|9 pages

The aspirations of pre-implantation diagnoses

chapter Seventeen|9 pages

Procreation in the web of prediction

part IV|38 pages

Beyond Procreation

chapter |2 pages

Introduction to Part IV

chapter Eighteen|6 pages

The mutations of the Symbolic

chapter Nineteen|6 pages

Programmed not to be programmed

chapter Twenty|5 pages

The enclaves of the unexpected

chapter Twenty-One|7 pages

The fault line of origin

chapter Twenty-Two|8 pages

Everything can always change