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

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

Contributors

Professor Kate Hampshire k.r.hampshire@durham.ac.uk
Editor

Professor Bob Simpson robert.simpson@durham.ac.uk
Editor

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
Acceptance Date	Jan 24, 2014
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
Publisher URL	http://www.berghahnbooks.com/title.php?rowtag=HampshireAssisted

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Copyright Statement
This chapter appears in a larger collection published by Berghahn Books (http://www.berghahnbooks.com/title.php?rowtag=HampshireAssisted). SAMPLE CITATION: Bob Simpson and Kate Hampshire. 2015. “Introduction: Assisted Reproductive Technologies: A Third Phase?” In Assisted reproductive technologies in the third phase: global encounters and emerging moral worlds, eds. Kate Hampshire and Bob Simpson. New York: Berghahn Books.