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Sarah Franklin is an American anthropologist who has substantially contributed to the fields of feminism, gender theory, stem cell research, reproductive and genetic medicine and their associated technologies. She has conducted fieldwork on IVF, cloning, embryology and stem cell research. Her work combines both ethnographic methods and kinship theory, with more recent approaches from science studies, gender and cultural studies. She is currently Professor of Social Studies of Biomedicine and Acting Director of the BIOS Centre for the Study of Bioscience, Biomedicine, Biotechnology and Society at the London School of Economics.

Franklin has an MA in Women's Studies from the University of Kent (1984), an MA in Anthropology from New York University (1986) and a PhD from Birmingham University's Centre for Cultural Studies (1992).

She has written and edited 15 books on reproductive and genetic technologies, as well as more than 100 articles, chapters, and reports. Some of her work has been heavily criticized as post-modernist pretention for its unsupported assertions.

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