Assisted reproductive technologies in the third phase : global encounters and emerging moral worlds / edited by Kate Hampshire and Bob Simpson.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hampshire, Kate, editor.

Simpson, Bob, 1956- editor.

Series:

Fertility, Reproduction and Sexuality

Fertility, Reproduction and Sexuality ; v.31

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Human reproductive technology--Moral and ethical aspects.

Human reproductive technology.

Globalization--Social aspects.

Globalization.

Human reproductive technology--Developing countries.

Human embryo--Transplantation.

Human embryo.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (284 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Berghahn Books, 2015.

Language Note:

English

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.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Introduction: Assisted Reproductive Technologies A Third Phase?

PART I (Islamic) ART Journeys and Moral Pioneers

Introduction: New Reproductive Technologies in Islamic Local Moral Worlds

Chapter 1 ‘Islamic Bioethics’ in Transnational Perspective

Chapter 2 Moral Pioneers: Pakistani Muslims and the Take-up of Assisted Reproductive Technologies in the North of England

Chapter 3 Whither Kinship? Assisted Reproductive Technologies and Relatedness in the Islamic Republic of Iran

Chapter 4 Practitioner Perspective: Practising ARTs in Islamic Contexts

PART II ARTs and the Low-Income Threshold

Introduction: ARTs in Resource-Poor Areas: Practices, Experiences, Challenges and Theoretical Debates

Chapter 5 Global Access to Reproductive Technologies and Infertility Car e in Developing Countries

Chapter 6 Childlessness in Bangladesh: Women’s Experiences of Access to Biomedical Infertility Services

Chapter 7 Ethics, Identities and Agency: ART, Elites and HIV /AIDS in Botswana

Chapter 8 A Child Cannot Be Bought? Economies of Hope and Failure when Using ARTs in Mali

Chapter 9 Practitioner Perspective: A View from Sri Lanka

PART III ARTs and Professional Practice

Introduction: Ethnic Communities, Professions and Practices

Chapter 10 Reproductive Technologies and Ethnic Minorities: Beyond a Marginalising Discourse on the Marginalised Communities

Chapter 11 Knock, Knock, ‘You’re my Mummy’ Anonymity, Identification and Gamete Donation in British South Asian Communities

Chapter 12 Practitioner Perspective: Cultural Competence from Theory to Clinical Practice

Joint Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781782388081

1782388087