Prenatal Imaging: Egg Freezing, Embryo Selection and the Visual Politics of Reproductive Time
dc.contributor.author | Van de Wiel, Lucy | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2018-12-20T00:31:10Z | |
dc.date.available | 2018-12-20T00:31:10Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2018-10-16 | |
dc.identifier.issn | 2380-3312 | |
dc.identifier.uri | https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/287236 | |
dc.description.abstract | <jats:p>In the last decade, two influential new reproductive technologies have been introduced that are changing the face of in vitro fertilization (IVF): egg freezing for “fertility preservation” and time-lapse embryo imaging for embryo selection. With these technologies emerge alternative visual representations of the assisted reproductive process and its relation to time. First, frozen egg photographs provide a lens onto contemporary reconfigurations of reproductive aging and stage a life-death dyad between the frozen cell and the embodied self, which drives treatment rationales for egg freezing. Second, time-lapse embryo imaging creates visual recordings of developing embryos in the incubator; the resultant quantified visual information can then be repurposed as a tool for predicting embryo viability. As these two sets of prenatal images reference dying eggs and non-viable embryos, they demonstrate a necropolitics of reproductive time, in which not only the generativity of new life but also the encounter with the death, finitude and fallibility of reproductive substances drives a widespread and intensified engagement with reproductive technologies.</jats:p> | |
dc.description.sponsorship | Alan Turing Institute | |
dc.publisher | University of Toronto Libraries - UOTL | |
dc.rights | Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International | |
dc.rights.uri | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ | |
dc.title | Prenatal Imaging: Egg Freezing, Embryo Selection and the Visual Politics of Reproductive Time | |
dc.type | Article | |
prism.endingPage | 35 | |
prism.issueIdentifier | 2 | |
prism.publicationName | Catalyst: Feminism, Theory, Technoscience | |
prism.startingPage | 1 | |
prism.volume | 4 | |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.17863/CAM.34543 | |
rioxxterms.versionofrecord | 10.28968/cftt.v4i2.29908 | |
rioxxterms.version | VoR | |
rioxxterms.licenseref.uri | http://www.rioxx.net/licenses/all-rights-reserved | |
dc.identifier.eissn | 2380-3312 | |
rioxxterms.type | Journal Article/Review | |
pubs.funder-project-id | Wellcome Trust (100606/Z/12/Z) | |
pubs.funder-project-id | Wellcome Trust (100606/Z/12/A) | |
pubs.funder-project-id | Alan Turing Institute (Unknown) | |
cam.issuedOnline | 2018-10-16 |
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