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.
ISBN: | 9781782388074 |
Publication date: | 1st September 2015 |
Author: | Kate Hampshire, Bob Simpson |
Publisher: | Berghahn Books |
Format: | Hardback |
Pagination: | 284 pages |
Series: | Fertility, Reproduction and Sexuality |
Genres: |
Social and cultural anthropology |