Extractions: An Ethnography of Reproductive Tourism (Global Ethics)

What can an anthropological study of Israeli cross-border egg donation contribute to the important debate of the global ethics of human egg traffic? What happens to nationalism and citizenship in an era of globalized egg trade? How are women's bodies in different national contexts positioned in unequal and conflicting relationships with each other under capitalism? In addition to addressing these questions, Michal Nahman also asks methodological questions for anthropologists and other social scientists about how we tell stories about science and the body. Can we simply tell them in a vacuum or are global developments important not just as a backdrop but as an integral part of the story of new reproductive technologies?