In Thailand, infertility remains a source of stigma for those couples that combine a range of religious, traditional and high-tech interventions in their quest for a child. This book explores this experience of infertility and the pursuit and use of assisted reproductive technologies by Thai couples. Though using assisted reproductive technologies is becoming more acceptable in Thai society, access to and choices about such technologies are mediated by differences in class position. These stories of women and men in private and public infertility clinics reveal how local social and moral sensitivities influence the practices and meanings of treatment.
Table of Content
Preface
Acknowledgments
Notes on Language and Transliteration
Abbreviations
Introduction: Culture Mediums
Chapter 1. The Birth of IVF in Thailand
Chapter 2. Incompleteness
Chapter 3. Begging for Babies
Chapter 4. Engaging Technologies
Chapter 5. The Clinical Ensemble
Chapter 6. Patriarchal Bargains
Chapter 7. ‘Love Clinic’: Cyber-sociality
Chapter 8. ‘Technology that gives men hope’
Chapter 9. Carrying the Merit
Conclusion
Appendix
Glossary
References
Index
About the author
Andrea Whittaker is an ARC Future Fellow and Convenor of Anthropology at Monash University. She is a medical anthropologist whose most recent publications include Abortion, Sin and the State in Thailand (2004) and Abortion in Asia: Local dilemmas, global politics (ed., Berghahn Books 2010).
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