TY  - BOOK
AU  - Wahlberg,Ayo
TI  - Good quality: the routinization of sperm banking in China 
SN  - 9780520969995
AV  - QP255 .W28 2018
U1  - 362.17/830951 23
PY  - 2018///]
CY  - Oakland, California
PB  - University of California Press
KW  - Sperm banks
KW  - China
KW  - Sperm donors
KW  - Artificial insemination
KW  - Sperm Banks
KW  - Banques de sperme
KW  - Chine
KW  - Donneurs de sperme
KW  - Insémination artificielle
KW  - POLITICAL SCIENCE
KW  - Public Policy
KW  - Social Security
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Social Services & Welfare
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE
KW  - Anthropology
KW  - Cultural
KW  - fast
KW  - Manners and customs
KW  - Social life and customs
KW  - Mœurs et coutumes
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Introduction : jingzi weiji : sperm crisis -- The birth of art in China -- Improving population quality -- Exposed biologies -- Mobilizing sperm donors -- Making quality auditable -- Borrowing sperm -- Conclusion : routinization
N2  - "From its crude and uneasy beginnings thirty years ago, Chinese sperm banking has become a routine part of China's pervasive and restrictive reproductive complex. Today, there are sperm banks in fifteen of China's twenty-two provinces, the biggest of which screen some 2,000-3,000 potential donors each year. With an estimated one to two-million azoospermic men--those who are unable to produce their own sperm--the demand remains insatiable. China's fifteen sperm banks cannot keep up, spurring sperm bank directors to publicly lament chronic shortages and even warn of a national 'sperm crisis' (jingzi weiji). Good quality explores the issues behind the crisis, including declining sperm quality in the country due to environmental pollution, as well as a chronic national shortage of donors. Whalberg also outlines the specific style of Chinese sperm banking that has been shaped by the particular cultural, juridical, economic and social configurations that make up China's restrictive reproductive complex. Good Quality shows how this high-throughput style shapes the ways in which men experience donation and sperm is made available to couples who can afford it"--Provided by publisher
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