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

Kate Hampshire (Curatore)

Bob Simpson (Curatore)

Berghahn Books, 2015

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.

• Curatore: Kate Hampshire, Bob Simpson
• Editore: Berghahn Books
• Collana: Fertility, Reproduction and Sexuality: Social and Cultural Perspectives
• Anno: 2015
• Rilegatura: Hardback
• Pagine: 284 p.
• Dimensioni: 229 x 152 mm
• Peso: 549 gr.
• EAN: 9781782388074

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