Birthing Techno-Sapiens: Human-Technology Co-Evolution and the Future of Reproduction

ISBN-13: 9780367535438 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 302 str.

Robbie Davis-Floyd

Opis

This ground-breaking book challenges us to re-think ourselves as techno-sapiens—a new species we are creating as we continually co-evolve ourselves with our technologies. The chapters are empirically grounded in ethnography and richly theorized from diverse disciplines.

Recenzje

"This is a theoretically robust and bold work that is well positioned to provoke debate, productive thinking, and practical responses."

Lisa M. Mitchell, University of Victoria, Canada.

Spis treści

Introduction: Birthing Techno-Sapiens  Part 1: From Biocultural Evolution To Human-Technology Co-Evolution  1. Birth and the Big Bad Wolf: Biocultural Evolution and Human Childbirth  2. Egg Freezing Activists: Extending Reproductive Futures to Cancer Patients, Single and Minority Women, and Transgender Men  3. The Speculative Turn In IVF: Egg Freezing, Reproductive Futures, and the Financialization Of Fertility  4. Sociology as Technology: A Toolkit for Studying In Vitro Gametogenesis  5. Reproduction, Sacrificial Life, and the Logics of Attrition in the Afterlife of Apartheid  6. Making Better Babies? Past and Future State Fair Contests Evaluating Geneticized Worth  7. Human Germline Genome Editing and Its Tech-Sumptions  8. Evaluating Ectogenesis via the Metaphysics of Pregnancy  9. Elective Cesarean Births in the US and the Global Cesarean Epidemic: Causes, Solutions, and Futuristic Implications  10. Cancerous Contraceptives and the Incubation of Monsters: Quechua Reproductive Etiology and Producing Necro-Techno-Sapiens  Part 2: Imagining Techno-Holistic Reproductive Futures  11. Water as a Technology to Support Embodied Autonomous Birthing  12. The Birth of a New Human Being: The Utopian Project of the Late Soviet Waterbirth Movement and Its Inheritors  13. Safety, Co-Regulation, and Polyvagal Theory: The Autonomic Nervous System as the Missing Link in Childbirth Outcomes and Experiences  14. Family-Centered, Evidence-Based, Psycho-Socially Sensitive, and Culturally Respectful Perinatal Care: Still a Futuristic Dream!  15. Flexible Helpers: Re-Scribing Obstetric Technologies to Generate More Viable Futures for "Good" Pregnancies and Births  16. Coming Home: Re-Visioning Place of Birth in the 21st Century  17. Creating Life in Star Trek: Future Imagineering  Conclusions: Birthing Techno-Sapiens in Disruptive Times