Abstract Scholarly analyses of transactions of biological material are often focused on either the moral economy of exchange or the political economy of production. In this paper, I highlight the ambiguities that characterize commercial gamete donations in daily clinical life in In Vitro Fertilization (IVF) hospitals in Delhi through agents’ practices of valuation. In Delhi’s IVF economy, agents occupy a pivotal role in mediating gamete transactions: not only as traders of biological substances but also as brokers of values. Aligning various regimes of value, they let transactions appear as morally meaningful as well as economically profitable to donors. Agents also make use of polyvalences and frame transactions in distinct lights in negotiations with different participants. It is their mediations and practices of valuation, I argue, that make commercial gamete donations viable and sustain Delhi’s intimate IVF economy.

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配子交易者，价值经纪人：调解德里的商业配子捐赠

摘要 对生物材料交易的学术分析往往集中在交换的道德经济学或生产的政治经济学上。在本文中，我通过代理人的估价实践强调了德里体外受精 (IVF) 医院日常临床生活中商业配子捐赠的模糊特征。在德里的试管婴儿经济中，代理人在调解配子交易中发挥着关键作用：不仅作为生物物质的交易者，而且作为价值的经纪人。调整各种价值体系，他们让交易对捐助者来说既具有道德意义，又具有经济利益。在与不同参与者的谈判中，代理人还利用多价并以不同的方式构建交易。我认为，这是他们的中介和估值实践，