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
Achieving procreation : childlessness and IVF in Turkey
by Merve Demircioğlu Göknar
Language: English
New York : Berghahn, 2015. ©2015.
xii, 201 pages ; 24 cm.
ISBN: 9781782386346 ; 1782386343
Summary: Managing social relationships for childless couples in pro-natalist societies can be a difficult art to master, and may even become an issue of belonging for both men and women. With ethnographic research gathered from two IVF clinics and in two villages in northwestern Turkey, this book explores infertility and assisted reproductive technologies within a secular Muslim population. Göknar investigates the experience of infertility through various perspectives, such as the importance of having a child for women, the mediating role of religion, the power dynamics in same-gender relationships, and the impact of manhood ideologies on the decision for — or against — having IVF.
Available: http://www.berghahnbooks.com/title/GoeknarAchieving
Thai in vitro : gender, culture and assisted reproduction
by Andrea Whittaker
Language: English
New York : Berghahn Books, 2015.
276 p. : illus. ; cm.
ISBN: 9781782387329 ; 1782387323
Summary: In Thailand, infertility remains a source of stigma for those couples that combine a range of religious, traditional and high-tech interventions in their quest for a child. This book explores this experience of infertility and the pursuit and use of assisted reproductive technologies by Thai couples. Though using assisted reproductive technologies is becoming more acceptable in Thai society, access to and choices about such technologies are mediated by differences in class position. These stories of women and men in private and public infertility clinics reveal how local social and moral sensitivities influence the practices and meanings of treatment.
Available: http://www.berghahnbooks.com/title/WhittakerThai
