Cosmopolitan Conceptions

Inhorn Marcia C. Inhorn

Description

In their desperate quest for conception, thousands of infertile couples from around the world travel to the global in vitro fertilization (IVF) hub of Dubai. In Cosmopolitan Conceptions Marcia C. Inhorn highlights the stories of 220 "reprotravelers" from fifty countries who sought treatment at a "cosmopolitan" IVF clinic in Dubai. These couples cannot find safe, affordable, legal, and effective IVF services in their home countries, and their stories offer a window into the world of infertility-a world that is replete with pain, fear, danger, frustration, and financial burden. These hardships dispel any notion that traveling for IVF treatment is reproductive tourism. The magnitude of reprotravel to Dubai, Inhorn contends, reflects the failure of countries to meet their citizens' reproductive needs, which suggests the necessity of creating new forms of activism that advocate for developing alternate pathways to parenthood, reducing preventable forms of infertility, supporting the infertile, and making safe and low-cost IVF available worldwide.

Sujets

• Médecine
• Reproductive medicine

Informations

• Publié par: Duke University Press
• Date de parution: 23 juillet 2015
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9780822375357
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 6 Mo

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COSmOpOLîTàN CONcEpTîONS

IVF Sojourns in Global Dubai

m a r C i a C . i n h o r n ûé Ûéŝ éŝŝ ûà à ôô 2015

© 2015 ûé Ûéŝ éŝŝ Ā ŝ éŝéé é  é Ûé Śàéŝ ô Āéçà ô àç-éé àé ∞ Çôé éŝ  ààé . Ś; éô éŝ  éàé éŝé éŝé  Çààà ô  Wéŝçéŝé ûŝ Śéçéŝ

à ô Çôéŝŝ Çààô--ûçàô àà ô, àçà Çàé, [àé] Çôŝôôà çôçéôŝ : îvf ŝôôûŝ  ôà ûà / àçà Ç. ô. àéŝ ç çûéŝ ôàçà éééçéŝ à é. îsbn 978-0-8223-5913-5 (àçôé : à. àé) îsbn 978-0-8223-5933-3 (. : à. àé) îsbn 978-0-8223-7535-7 (é-ôô) 1. ézàô  ô, ûà—Ûé Āà Éàéŝ—ûà. 2. éçà ôûŝ—Ûé Āà Éàéŝ—ûà. . é. rg135.î5834 2015 362.1981'780599095357—ç23 2015009494

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In Honor of Lowell, Roger, and Kris, éé çà ŝçàŝ,

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In memory of Frederick L. Dunn, ŝçà-àôôôŝ à éô

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ChaPter 1 ûŝ: éçà Çôŝôôàŝ  é Éàéŝ Hubs: Reprotrae Stores77

ChaPter 2 Āŝéçéŝ: éŝôûçé Śôàéŝ à Wà ŝŝ Absences: Reprotrae Stores138

ChaPter 3 éŝçôŝ: éôûŝ àŝ à à Éàŝô Restrctons: Reprotrae Stores197

ChaPter 4 ŝçôôŝ: éçà à à é Śéàç ô -Qûà IVF Dscomorts: Reprotrae Stores255

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Āçôééŝ ôŝŝà ô éçà éŝ ôéŝ éééçéŝ é

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FIgure 1.1. Çôçéé 35 2. 35hé àûô à Çôçéé FIgure 1. ô ûŝéŝ éé Çôçéé’ŝ ôéà éàé 36 FIgure 1.3. FIgure 1.4. hé éé é ô Çôçéé 36 . 37ûŝéŝ éà Çôçéé’ŝ ôéà éàé FIgure 1.5 FIgure 1.6. 37. àà Śàŝà çôŝû  à ûŝé FIgure 1.7. 38Ā àà à Çôçéé FIgure 1.8. àé à ôôŝ àô Çôçéé’ŝ ààŝ 38 FIgure 1.9. 39Çôçéé’ŝ ôûŝàŝ ô éçà iéŝ . àà ô à Éà îvf ôé 39 FIgure 1.10. FIgure 1.11. 47ûà’ŝ û à-Āà, é ô’ŝ ô ŝéé-ŝà ôé FIgure 1.12. 48ûà’ŝ û Kàà, é ô’ŝ àéŝ û FIgure 1.13. 49û Āàŝ ŝô à ûà à FIgure 1.14. Ā é Éàŝé àŝàà ŝô  é Éàéŝ 49 Éà ôé éà àôà ôôŝ 50 FIgure 1.15. FIgure 1.16. 50Ā Éà çôûé à ûà’ŝ ôà àé FIgure 1.17. Ā qû ôé éà à ô çôéŝéé éôŝ 85 FIgure 1.18. Ā lé àôûç ûà’ŝ ŝéçô àûà îvf  éŝà 96 FIgure 1.19. hé Āà à 102 FIgure 4.1. 226Çôçéé’ŝ îvf ô, . àà Śàŝà re C.1. hé àûô à é àûé  é Éàéŝ ôéŝ, FIgu ûà 293 FIgure C.2. 295hé û Kàà à 

table 1.1. hé ôà éôŝçàé ô Çôçéé:  àôŝ ô Ô àô é Śû ôûàô 56 ôà Çôŝôôàŝ: ô é ôéŝŝôŝ ô é à Wôé  table 1.2. é Śû,  à Ôé 61 .1. 113îvf: Ā éôà Çôàŝô table 2