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«Making Children. New reproductive technologies and family structure. Sperm donors, surrogate mothers, artificial insemination - this is the full title of this book.

Calmly, with microscopic precision and unrelenting scepticism, the author explores how modern Western societies are merging new reproductive technologies with the concept of the bourgeois family, which emerged simultaneously with embryology: after 1770. That is why Making Children is so exceptional, because it combines the history of biological knowledge about conception with the history of the modern family and feelings at the turn of the seventeenth and nineteenth centuries. The places of reproductive action are depicted only from the perspective of double historicity: clinics, sperm banks, websites, surrogate mother agencies. Andreas Bernard has travelled everywhere where technology is helping to create a family. He talked to people, visited laboratories, read statistics His discovery is not the disintegration of all values, but the revival of the burger model of father-mother-child, which appeared at the turn of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries and is now fading away in a childless society.

Elizabeth von Tudden

This book was written and published in Ukrainian with the financial support of the Fundamentals of Cultural Integration programme of the University of Constance and the Digital Culture Research Laboratory of Leuphana University, Lüneburg.

The book was translated with the support of the Goethe-Institut in Ukraine.