This new edition of Sarah Franklin's classic monograph on the development of in vitro
fertilisation (IVF) includes two entirely new chapters reflecting on the relevance of the book's …

This review analyzes the emerging literature on reproductive tourism through a metaphorical
“reproscope,” focusing largely on cross-border egg donation and surrogacy as the prime …

From its crude and uneasy beginnings thirty years ago, Chinese sperm banking has become
a routine part of China's pervasive and restrictive reproductive complex. Today, there are …

Over the last two decades, social scientists across disciplines have been researching how
value is extracted and governed in the reproductive bioeconomy, which broadly refers to the …

This paper explores how reproductive life has changed through the development,
transnational spread, and commercialization of assisted reproductive technologies (in vitro …

A growing number of infertile couples and other individuals desiring children are seeking to
fulfill their desire for parenthood transnationally through the use of donor gametes and a …

Cryopreservation practices have become increasingly important within contemporary life
sciences in recent decades, opening up the perspective of modifying and modulating …

In the last few decades, assisted reproductive technologies (ARTs) have become
increasingly transregional and transnational, often involving travel within or between …

Today, there should be little doubt that new reproductive technologies have 'diversified,
globalized, and denaturalized'human reproduction (Inhorn and Birenbaum-Carmeli 2008) …

This article constructs an explanatory history of the introduction, growth and social regulation
of IVF in Turkey, labelling it a form of 'patriarchal pronatalism'. Based on sociological …