Assisted Reproductive Technologies in the Third Phase: Global Encounters and Emerging Moral Worlds

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,...

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Veröffentlicht: New York ; Oxford Berghahn Books [2015]
Schriftenreihe:Fertility, Reproduction and Sexuality: Social and Cultural Perspectives 31
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Zusammenfassung: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
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Beschreibung:1 Online-Ressource (284 Seiten)
ISBN:9781782388081
DOI:10.1515/9781782388081

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