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Margaret Nelson

Professor - Middlebury College
United States

01.07.2016-29.07.2016

SOCIAL AND BIOGENETIC FACTORS IN THE MAKING OF NEW FAMILIES
Margaret K. Nelson received her doctorate degree from Columbia University. She has taught in the Department of Sociology./Anthropology at Middlebury College since 1975. Margaret’s current research (with Rosanna Hertz of Wellesley College) explores the social meanings of conception with donor gametes among parents, offspring and the donors themselves. Margaret and Rosanna have collected extensive data in both the United States (online surveys and face-to-face interviews ) and Spain (online survey). One current project analyzes how attitudes toward regulation of the fertility industry by the European Union differ among clients who cross borders to receive treatment and those who receive treatment in their home country. Another strand of their research focuses on how donor-conceived families normalize the use of biogenetic substances and whether (and how) they make bloodlines to others who share the same donor meaningful.

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