Assisted Reproductive Technologies in the Third Phase

Global Encounters and Emerging Moral Worlds

284 Seiten, Hardcover

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

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.

• Reihe: Fertility, Reproduction and Sexuality: Social and Cultural Perspectives
• Themen: Medizin Vorklinische Medizin, Grundlagenwissenschaften Fortpflanzung, Wachstum und Entwicklung des Menschen Reproduktionsmedizin
• ISBN: 9781782388074
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 01.09.2015
• Größe: 235 x 157 mm
• Verlag: Berghahn Books
• Herausgegeben von: Kate Hampshire, Bob Simpson