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Legitimating Life : Adoption in the Age of Globalization and Biotechnology /
The phenomenon of transnational adoption is changing in the age of globalization and biotechnology. In Legitimating Life, Sonja van Wichelen boldly describes how contemporary justifications of cross-border adoption navigate between child welfare, humanitarianism, family making, capitalism, science,...
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New Brunswick, New Jersey :
Rutgers University Press,
[2019]
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Table des matières:
- Introduction: adoption in the age of globalization and biotechnology
- The ethical market: between reproduction and humanitarianism
- Double movements: international law as transparency device
- Valuing bodies: somatic ethics in the biomedicalization of adoption
- Grievable lives: the adoptee and the child migrant
- Economies of return: openness, knowledge, relations
- Conclusion: legitimating life.