Jeanette Edwards

Jeanette Edwards is Professor of Social Anthropology at Manchester University. She has published widely on the implications of new reproductive technologies for kinship both ethnographically and theoretically. She is author of Born ad Bred: Idioms of Kinship and New Reproductive Technologies in England (Oxford University Press, 2000), co-author of Technologies of Procreation: Kinship in the Age of Assisted Conception (Routledge 2nd ed., 1999) and co-editor of Recasting Anthropological Knowledge: Inspiration and Social Science (Cambridge University Press 2011). She directed the European-funded project ‘Public Understanding of Genetics: a Cross- Cultural and Ethnographic Study of the “new genetics” and social identity’.