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

Abstract

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.

Citation

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

• Book Type: Edited Book
• Online Publication Date: Sep 1, 2015
• Publication Date: Sep 1, 2015
• Deposit Date: Oct 22, 2015
• Publicly Available Date: Sep 1, 2017
• Series Title: Fertility, reproduction and sexuality
• Series Number: 31
• Public URL: https://durham-repository.worktribe.com/output/1130478
• Publisher URL: http://www.berghahnbooks.com/title.php?rowtag=HampshireAssisted
• Contract Date: Jan 24, 2014