Assisted reproductive technologies in the third phase: global encounters and emerging moral worlds

Assisted reproductive technologies in the third phase: global encounters and emerging moral worlds 
by Kate Hampshire; Bob Simpson, editors 
Language: English 
New York ; Oxford Berghahn 2015. 
vi, 284 p. : 23 cm. 
ISBN: 1782388079 ; 9781782388074 
Summary: Following the birth of the first “test-tube baby” in 1978, Assisted Reproductive Technologies became available to a small number of people in high-income countries able to afford the cost of private treatment, a period seen as the “First Phase” of ARTs. In the “Second Phase,” these treatments became increasingly available to cosmopolitan global elites. Today, this picture is changing — albeit slowly and unevenly — as ARTs are becoming more widely available. While, for many, accessing infertility treatments remains a dream, these are beginning to be viewed as a standard part of reproductive healthcare and family planning. This volume highlights this “Third Phase” — the opening up of ARTs to new constituencies in terms of ethnicity, geography, education, and class. 
Available: http://www.berghahnbooks.com/title/HampshireAssisted