Forms of embodied labor, such as surrogacy and participation in clinical trials, are central to biomedical innovation, but they are rarely considered as labor. Melinda Cooper and …
As I reached the end of the final draft of this second edition in summer 2016, and the candidates for US president approached their official nominations, I remembered that damp …
Transnational Reproduction traces the relationships among Western aspiring parents, Indian surrogates, and egg donors from around the world. In the early 2010s India was one …
MR Nahman - Annual Review of Anthropology, 2016 - annualreviews.org
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 …
Winner of the 2021 BPS Book Award: Academic Text category, this groundbreaking book employs a transdisciplinary and poststructuralist methodology to develop the concept of …
S Bergmann - Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and …, 2011 - journals.uchicago.edu
Abstract “Fertility tourism” is a journalistic eye-catcher focusing on the phenomenon of patients who search for a reproductive treatment in another country in order to circumvent …
S Vertommen, V Pavone… - Science, Technology, & …, 2022 - journals.sagepub.com
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 …
D Marre, B San Román, D Guerra - Medical anthropology, 2018 - Taylor & Francis
Spain's plummeting fertility since the late twentieth century may seem to reflect a waning desire for children. Nevertheless, reproductive disappointments resulting from gender …
A Speier - Fertility Holidays, 2016 - degruyter.com
Each year, more and more Americans travel out of the country seeking low cost medical treatments abroad, including fertility treatments such as in vitro fertilization (IVF). As the …