Index

CONTENTS
introduction-Cyborg Babies : Children of the Third Millenium / JOSEPH DUMIT ; ROBBIE DAVIS-FLOYD = 1
part one CYBORG CONCEPTIONS
  one Constructing a "Good Catch," Picking a Winner : The Development of Technosemen and the Deconstruction of the Monolithic Male / MATTHEW SCHMIDT ; LISA JEAN MOORE = 21
  two "Quit Sniveling, Cryo-Baby. We'll Work out Which one's Your Mama!" / CHARIS M. CUSSINS = 40
  three Witches, Nurses, Midwives, and Cyborgs : IVF, ART, and Complex Agency in the World of Technobirth / STEVEN MENTOR = 67
  four Natural Love / JANET ISAACS ASHFORD = 90
part two THE TECHNO-FETUS
  five Baby's First Picture : The Cyborg Ftues of Ultrasound Imaging / LISA M. MITHELL ; EUGENIA GEORG = 105
  six The Fetus as Intruder : Mother Bodies and Medical Metaphors / EMILY MARTIN = 125
  seven Refusing Prenatal Diagnosis : The Uneven Meanings of Bioscience in a Multicultural World / RAYNA RAPP = 143
  eight Babies Don't Feel Pain : A Century of Denial in Medicine / DAVID B. CHAMBERLAIN = 168
part three MACHINES AND MOTHERS : POSTMODERN PREGNANCY, CYBORG BIRTH
  nine "Native" Narratives of Connectedness : Surrogate Motherhood and Technology / ELIZABETH F. S. ROBERTS = 193
  ten Living with the "Tmths" of DES : Toward an Anthropology of Facts / JOSEPH DUMIT ; SYLVIA SENSIPER = 212
  eleven The Logic of Heartbeats : Electronic Fetal Monitoring and Biomedically Constructed Birth / ELIZABETH CARTWRIGHT = 240
  twelve From Technobirth to Cyborg Babies : Reflections on the Emergent Discourse of a Holistic Anthropologist / ROBBIE DAVIS-FLOYD = 255
part four TECHNO-TOYS AND TECHNO-TOTS
  thirteen Growing Up Cyborg : Developmental Stories for Postmodern Children / JENNIFER L. CROISSANT = 285
  fourteen Inhabiting Multiple Worlds : Making Sense of SimCity 2000TM in the Fifth Dimension / MIZUKO ITO = 301
  fifteen Cyborg Babies and Cy-Dough-Plasm : Ideas about Self and Life in the Culture of Simulation / SHERRY TURKLE = 317
  sixteen Children of Metis : Beyond Zeus the Creator Paganism and the Possibilities for Embodied Cyborg Childraising / ANNE HILL = 330
notes on = 345
contributors = 345
index = 349