Assisted Reproductive Technologies in the Third Phase
Global Encounters and Emerging Moral WorldsFollowing 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, 1782388079
