Assisted Reproductive Technologies in the Third Phase : : Global Encounters and Emerging Moral Worlds / / ed. by Kate Hampshire, Bob Simpson.

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...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015
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Place / Publishing House:New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2015]
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Year of Publication:2015
Language:English
Series:Fertility, Reproduction and Sexuality: Social and Cultural Perspectives ; 31
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Physical Description:1 online resource (284 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Introduction: Assisted Reproductive Technologies A Third Phase?
  • PART I (Islamic) ART Journeys and Moral Pioneers
  • Introduction: New Reproductive Technologies in Islamic Local Moral Worlds
  • Chapter 1 ‘Islamic Bioethics’ in Transnational Perspective
  • Chapter 2 Moral Pioneers: Pakistani Muslims and the Take-up of Assisted Reproductive Technologies in the North of England
  • Chapter 3 Whither Kinship? Assisted Reproductive Technologies and Relatedness in the Islamic Republic of Iran
  • Chapter 4 Practitioner Perspective: Practising ARTs in Islamic Contexts
  • PART II ARTs and the Low-Income Threshold
  • Introduction: ARTs in Resource-Poor Areas: Practices, Experiences, Challenges and Theoretical Debates
  • Chapter 5 Global Access to Reproductive Technologies and Infertility Car e in Developing Countries
  • Chapter 6 Childlessness in Bangladesh: Women’s Experiences of Access to Biomedical Infertility Services
  • Chapter 7 Ethics, Identities and Agency: ART, Elites and HIV /AIDS in Botswana
  • Chapter 8 A Child Cannot Be Bought? Economies of Hope and Failure when Using ARTs in Mali
  • Chapter 9 Practitioner Perspective: A View from Sri Lanka
  • PART III ARTs and Professional Practice
  • Introduction: Ethnic Communities, Professions and Practices
  • Chapter 10 Reproductive Technologies and Ethnic Minorities: Beyond a Marginalising Discourse on the Marginalised Communities
  • Chapter 11 Knock, Knock, ‘You’re my Mummy’ Anonymity, Identification and Gamete Donation in British South Asian Communities
  • Chapter 12 Practitioner Perspective: Cultural Competence from Theory to Clinical Practice
  • Joint Bibliography
  • Index