Infertility around the globe : new thinking on childlessness, gender, and reproductive technologies / edited by Marcia C. Inhorn, Frank van Balen.
This exceptional collection of essays breaks new ground by examining the global impact of infertility as a major reproductive health issue, one that has profoundly affected the lives of countless women and men. Based on original research by seventeen internationally acclaimed social scientists, it i...
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction : Interpreting infertility : a view from the social sciences / Frank van Balen and Marcia C. Inhorn
- The uses of a "disease" : infertility as rhetorical vehicle / Margarete Sandelowski and Sheryl de Lacey
- Fertile ground : feminists theorize infertility / Charis M. Thompson
- The psychologization of infertility / Frank van Balen
- Infertile bodies : medicalization, metaphor, and agency / Arthur L. Greil
- Deciding whether to tell children about donor insemination : an unresolved question in the United States / Gay Becker
- Conceiving the happy family : infertility and marital politics in Northern Vietnam / Melissa J. Pashigian
- Positioning gender identity in narratives of infertility : South Indian women's lives in context / Catherine Kohler Riessman
- Childlessness, adoption, and Milagros de Dios in Costa Rica / Gwynne L. Jenkins with Silvia Vargas Obando and JoseĢ Badilla Navas
- Problematizing fertility : "scientific" accounts and Chadian women's narratives / Lori Leonard
- Is infertility an unrecognized public health and population problem? The view from the Cameroon grassfields / Pamela Feldman-Savelsberg
- Infertility and matrilineality : the exceptional case of the Macua of Mozambique / Trudie Gerrits
- Infertility and health care in countries with less resources : case studies from sub-Saharan Africa / Johanne Sundby
- The "local" confronts the "global" : infertile bodies and new reproductive technologies in Egypt / Marcia C. Inhorn
- Rabbis and reproduction : the uses of new reproductive technologies among ultraorthodox Jews in Israel / Susan Martha Kahn
- The politics of making modern babies in China : reproductive technologies and the "new" eugenics / Lisa Handwerker
- Conception politics : medical egos, media spotlights, and the contest over test-tube firsts in India / Aditya Bharadwaj.