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Diane Tober is Assistant Adjunct Professor at the University of California, San Francisco Institute for Health and Aging and faculty at the Bixby Center for Reproductive Health. She is a cultural and medical anthropologist with a focus on gender and sexuality, the commodification of the body, science and technology studies, bioethics, and social and reproductive justice. She has been conducting research exploring egg donors’ decisions and experiences within the global market for human eggs since 2013, with now over 500 egg donors participating in her study. Diane Tober is also the author of Romancing the Sperm: Shifting Biopolitics and the Making of Modern Families (2018), investigating the role technology plays in the changing meanings of family.
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Diane Tober is Assistant Adjunct Professor at the University of California, San Francisco Institute for Health and Aging and faculty at the Bixby Center for Reproductive Health. She is a cultural and medical anthropologist with a focus on gender and sexuality, the commodification of the body, science and technology studies, bioethics, and social and reproductive justice. She has been conducting research exploring egg donors’ decisions and experiences within the global market for human eggs since 2013, with now over 500 egg donors participating in her study. Diane Tober is also the author of Romancing the Sperm: Shifting Biopolitics and the Making of Modern Families (2018), investigating the role technology plays in the changing meanings of family.