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InVitroFutures · In Vitro Futures: an Anthropological Study of Embryo Adoption between Canada and Spain

„Хоризонт Европа“ — Действия „Мария Склодовска-Кюри“

Период: 2023-04-01 → 2026-03-31
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Схема: HORIZON-TMA-MSCA-PF-GF

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Накратко на български

Антропологичният анализ на донорството на ембриони в Испания и Канада разглежда как се управляват „излишните“ ембриони след ин витро оплодтяване. Това помага да се разберат правните, етичните и социалните разлики при създаването на семейства чрез донорство.

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In Vitro Futures: an Anthropological Study of Embryo Adoption between Canada and Spain

As soon as in vitro fertilization (IVF) was established in 1970, the practical legal and ethical question of embryos cryopreservation emerged. A single IVF cycle creates numerous embryos and, generally, a greater number of those that will be used for conception. Across the world, stored embryos are described as problematic, because a significant proportion of these are labelled as “surplus” for reproductive needs and remain cryopreserved indefinitely. These “extra embryos”, as biovalues, may be transferred immediately to other patients’ wombs, disposed of, or cryopreserved for embryo donation (ED). InVitroFutures is built around 3 Research Objects. RO1. Biomedical Issues, Moral Discourses, Salvific Logics. In the current framework of ED management, the line between the logics of gift-commodity, labour-donation, waste-value, property-entitlement in the reproductive bio-economy are increasingly blurred: in line with RO1, the research will explore and study how medical actions contribute to such blurring. RO2. Regulations, Practices, Political Effects. To identify how these meanings and practices are influenced or promoted by social determinants such as nationality/country, bio-political institutions, gender-sexuality, class, race, in the presence or absence of a regulatory framework, this research requires the comparison between the two cases: ED in Spain and in Canada. RO3. Relatedness in Embryo Donation. Inspired by the theoretical framework of kinning and de-kinning, this research will pursue RO3 by examining empirically the meanings and practices of family relatedness in the transition to parenthood of families created through ED, and the representations of embryo donors and receivers.

Текст от CORDIS, на английски · Данни: CORDIS, © Европейски съюз

Цел на проекта

In Vitro Futures is a critical and innovative anthropological analysis of embryo adoption from a transnational, multi-sited and comparative perspective between Canada and Spain. The project is built around 3 fundamental, yet unanswered research questions: RQ1. From a comparative point of view, what narratives exist behind embryos adoption and how are these meanings and practices shaped or promoted by social determinants such as nationality/country, bio-political institutions, gender/sexuality, and class? RQ2. How do clinics and fertility specialists influence embryos adoption practices? RQ3. How is biological relatedness referred to by embryo donors and embryo receivers in Canada and Spain? The research aims will be reached through 3 Research Objectives (ROs), corresponding to the 3 research questions outlined above. RO1. Biomedical Issues, Moral Discourses, Salvific Logics. In the current framework of embryos adoption management RO1 will explore and study how medical actions contribute to construct a specific narrative relating to the extra embryos. RO2. To identify how these meanings and practices are coerced or promoted by social determinants such as nationality/country, bio-political institutions, gender-sexuality, class, race, in the presence or absence of a regulatory framework, this research requires the comparison between the two cases: embryo adoption in Spain and in Canada. RO3. Relatedness in Embryo Adoption Programs. RO3 will examine empirically the meanings and practices of family relatedness in the transition to parenthood of families created through this practice. My hypothesis is that the ways in which the embryos are represented and the impact of absence/presence of a law on embryo donation may have significant implications for decision-making around the fate of spare embryos.

Оригинален текст от CORDIS (на английски).

Участници

ALMA MATER STUDIORUM - UNIVERSITA DI BOLOGNA · BolognaКоординаторИталия
AGENCIA ESTATAL CONSEJO SUPERIOR DE INVESTIGACIONES CIENTIFICAS · MadridИспания
UNIVERSITE DU QUEBEC EN OUTAOUAIS · GatineauКанада