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Assisted Reproductive Technologies in the Third Phase: Global Encounters and Emerging Moral Worlds (2015)
Book
Hampshire, K., & Simpson, R. (Eds.). (2015). Assisted Reproductive Technologies in the Third Phase: Global Encounters and Emerging Moral Worlds. Berghahn Books

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 AR... Read More about Assisted Reproductive Technologies in the Third Phase: Global Encounters and Emerging Moral Worlds.

The interview as narrative ethnography: seeking and shaping connections in qualitative research (2012)
Journal Article
Hampshire, K., Blell, M., Iqbal, N., & Simpson, B. (2014). The interview as narrative ethnography: seeking and shaping connections in qualitative research. International Journal of Social Research Methodology, 17(3), 215-231. https://doi.org/10.1080/13645579.2012.729405

Acts of counter-subjectification in qualitative research are always present but are often submerged in accounts that seek to locate the power of subjectification entirely with the researcher. This is particularly so when talking to people about sensi... Read More about The interview as narrative ethnography: seeking and shaping connections in qualitative research.

‘Everybody is moving on’: Infertility, relationality and the aesthetics of family among British-Pakistani Muslims (2012)
Journal Article
Hampshire, K., Blell, M., & Simpson, B. (2012). ‘Everybody is moving on’: Infertility, relationality and the aesthetics of family among British-Pakistani Muslims. Social Science & Medicine, 74(7), 1045-1052. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2011.12.031

It is now widely recognised that experiences of infertility are socially and culturally contingent. Drawing on reproductive narratives of 108 British-Pakistani Muslims living in Northeast England (collected from 2007 to 2010), we show that subjective... Read More about ‘Everybody is moving on’: Infertility, relationality and the aesthetics of family among British-Pakistani Muslims.