Ariza, Lucía (2018) Risky Mixings: Unravelling Gametes’ Bad Potential in Argentina. Tecnoscienza. Italian Journal of Science and Technology Studies, 9 (1). pp. 49-78. ISSN 2038-3460
Abstract
n both the expert and mass media cultures to which they simul- taneously belong, ova and sperm have come to figure prominently as entities of potentiality, of expansion of the vital capabilities of bodies and of regener- ation of their exhausted capacities. This article looks into the practices of gamete exchange in Argentina to argue, however, a different story. It con- tends that for all the good potentiality that gametes have come to represent, they are also entangled in webs of risk. They can be extracted too much or too often, decrease their provider’s expectation of good health, or create wrongful (i.e. incestuous and/or endogamous) bodily links between individu- als. Drawing on analyses of the actual use of statistical measures in the clinic; and of ways of understanding kinship that are particular to Argentina, the ar- ticle suggests that the handling of gametes as risky substances may ultimately work to produce the risks that it only aims to prevent. The study brought together the literature on kinship and science studies in order to frame the problematic of kinship and risk management in technoscience.
Metadata
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | donor conception; gametes; numerical devices; risk; Argentina. |
| Subjects: | Social and human sciences > Social sciences > Anthropologists |
| Depositing User: | Dra. Lucía Ariza |
| Date Deposited: | 28 Dec 2020 14:01 |
| Last Modified: | 28 Dec 2020 14:01 |
| URI: | https://repositorio.esocite.la/id/eprint/298 |
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