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Local Babies, Global Science

Gender, Religion and In Vitro Fertilization in Egypt

By: Marcia C. Inhorn

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Gender, Religion and In Vitro Fertilization in Egypt

By: Marcia C. Inhorn

In the late 1990s, Egypt experienced a boom period in in vitro fertilization (IVF) technology and now boasts more IVF clinics than neighboring Israel. In this book, Marcia Inhorn writes of her fieldwork among affluent, elite couples who sought in vitro fertilization in Egypt, a country which is not only at the forefront of IVF technology in the Middle East, but also a center of Islamic education in the region. Inhorn examines the gender, scientific, religious and cultural ramifications of the transfer of IVF technology from Euro-American points of origin to Egypt - showing how cultural ideas reshape the use of this technology and in turn, how the technology is reshaping cultural ideas in Egypt.

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1136073302

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The New Arab Man

Emergent Masculinities, Technologies, and Islam in the Middle East

By: Marcia C. Inhorn

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The New Arab Man

Emergent Masculinities, Technologies, and Islam in the Middle East

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Middle Eastern Muslim men have been widely vilified as terrorists, religious zealots, and brutal oppressors of women. The New Arab Man challenges these stereotypes with the stories of ordinary Middle Eastern men as they struggle to overcome infertility and childlessness through assisted reproduction. Drawing on two decades of ethnographic research across the Middle East with hundreds of men from a variety of social and religious backgrounds, Marcia Inhorn shows how the new Arab man is self-consciously rethinking the patriarchal masculinity of his forefathers and unseating received wisdoms. This is especially true in childless Middle Eastern marriages where, contrary to popular belief, infertility is more common among men than women. Inhorn captures the marital, moral, and material commitments of couples undergoing assisted reproduction, revealing how new technologies are transforming their lives and religious sensibilities. And she looks at the changing manhood of husbands who undertake transnational "egg quests"--set against the backdrop of war and economic uncertainty--out of devotion to the infertile wives they love. Trenchant and emotionally gripping, The New Arab Man traces the emergence of new masculinities in the Middle East in the era of biotechnology.

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Princeton University Press

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0691148899

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9780691148892

America’s Arab Refugees

Vulnerability and Health on the Margins

By: Marcia C. Inhorn

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America’s Arab Refugees

Vulnerability and Health on the Margins

By: Marcia C. Inhorn

America's Arab Refugees is a timely examination of the world's worst refugee crisis since World War II. Tracing the history of Middle Eastern wars—especially the U.S. military interventions in Iraq and Afghanistan—to the current refugee crisis, Marcia C. Inhorn examines how refugees fare once resettled in America. In the U.S., Arabs are challenged by discrimination, poverty, and various forms of vulnerability. Inhorn shines a spotlight on the plight of resettled Arab refugees in the ethnic enclave community of "Arab Detroit," Michigan. Sharing in the poverty of Detroit's Black communities, Arab refugees struggle to find employment and to rebuild their lives. Iraqi and Lebanese refugees who have fled from war zones also face several serious health challenges. Uncovering the depths of these challenges, Inhorn's ethnography follows refugees in Detroit suffering reproductive health problems requiring in vitro fertilization (IVF). Without money to afford costly IVF services, Arab refugee couples are caught in a state of "reproductive exile"—unable to return to war-torn countries with shattered healthcare systems, but unable to access affordable IVF services in America. America's Arab Refugees questions America's responsibility for, and commitment to, Arab refugees, mounting a powerful call to end the violence in the Middle East, assist war orphans and uprooted families, take better care of Arab refugees in this country, and provide them with equitable and affordable healthcare services.

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Stanford University Press

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1503604381

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The Anthropology of Infectious Disease

International Health Perspectives

By: Peter J. Brown,Marcia C. Inhorn

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The Anthropology of Infectious Disease

International Health Perspectives

By: Peter J. Brown,Marcia C. Inhorn

Anthropological contributions to the study of infectious disease and to the study of actual infectious disease eradication programmes have rarely been collected in one volume. In the era of AIDS and the global resurgance of infectious diseases such as tuberculosis and malaria, there is widespread interest and concern about the cultural, ecological and political factors that are directly related to the increased prevalence of infectious disease. In this book, the authors have assembled the growing scholarship in one volume. Chapters explore the coevolution of genes and cultural traits; the cultural construction of 'disease' and how these models influence health-seeking behaviour; cultural adaptive strategies to infectious disease problems; the ways in which ethnography sheds light on epidemiological patterns of infectious disease; the practical and ethical dilemmas that anthropologists face by participating in infectious disease programmes; and the political ecology of infectious disease.

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Routledge

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1134386427

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Cosmopolitan Conceptions

IVF Sojourns in Global Dubai

By: Marcia C. Inhorn

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Cosmopolitan Conceptions

IVF Sojourns in Global Dubai

By: Marcia C. Inhorn

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.

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Duke University Press

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0822375354

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9780822375357

Quest for Conception

Gender, Infertility and Egyptian Medical Traditions

By: Marcia C. Inhorn

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Quest for Conception

Gender, Infertility and Egyptian Medical Traditions

By: Marcia C. Inhorn

In Quest for Conception, Marcia C. Inhorn portrays the poignant struggles of poor, urban Egyptian women and their attempts to overcome infertility. The author draws upon fifteen months of fieldwork in urban Egypt to present moving stories of infertile Muslim women whose tumultuous medical pilgrimages have yet to produce the desired pregnancies. Inhorn examines the devastating impact of infertility on the lives of these women, who are threatened with divorce by their husbands, harassed by their husbands' families, and ostracized by neighbors.

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University of Pennsylvania Press

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0812215281

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Anthropology and Public Health

Bridging Differences in Culture and Society

By: Robert A. Hahn,Marcia C. Inhorn

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Anthropology and Public Health

Bridging Differences in Culture and Society

By: Robert A. Hahn,Marcia C. Inhorn

Many serious public health problems confront the world in the new millennium. Anthropology and Public Health examines the critical role of anthropology in four crucial public health domains: (1) anthropological understandings of public health problems such as malaria, HIV/AIDS, and diabetes; (2) anthropological design of public health interventions in areas such as tobacco control and elder care; (3) anthropological evaluations of public health initiatives such as Safe Motherhood and polio eradication; and (4) anthropological critiques of public health policies, including neoliberal health care reforms. As the volume demonstrates, anthropologists provide crucial understandings of public health problems from the perspectives of the populations in which the problems occur. On the basis of such understandings, anthropologists may develop and implement interventions to address particular public health problems, often working in collaboration with local participants. Anthropologists also work as evaluators, examining the activities of public health institutions and the successes and failures of public health programs. Anthropological critiques may focus on major international public health agencies and their workings, as well as public health responses to the threats of infectious disease and other disasters. Through twenty-four compelling case studies from around the world, the volume provides a powerful argument for the imperative of anthropological perspectives, methods, information, and collaboration in the understanding and practice of public health. Written in plain English, with significant attention to anthropological methodology, the book should be required reading for public health practitioners, medical anthropologists, and health policy makers. It should also be of interest to those in the behavioral and allied health sciences, as well as programs of public health administration, planning, and management. As the single most comprehensive and up-to-date analysis of anthropology's role in public health, this volume will inform debates about how to solve the world's most pressing public health problems at a critical moment in human history.

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Oxford University Press

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0199705542

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Motherhood on Ice

The Mating Gap and Why Women Freeze Their Eggs

By: Marcia C. Inhorn

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Motherhood on Ice

The Mating Gap and Why Women Freeze Their Eggs

By: Marcia C. Inhorn

Why are American women freezing their eggs? Motherhood on Ice answers this question through the stories of more than 100 women who pursued fertility preservation. Egg freezing is women's technological solution to the mating gap-or the lack of eligible, educated, and equal partners who are ready for marriage and parenthood"--

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NYU Press

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1479813044

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Infertility and Patriarchy

The Cultural Politics of Gender and Family Life in Egypt

By: Marcia C. Inhorn

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Infertility and Patriarchy

The Cultural Politics of Gender and Family Life in Egypt

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Infertility and Patriarchy explores the lives of infertile women whose personal stories depict their daily struggles to resist disempowerment and stigmatization. Marcia C. Inhorn has produced a unique study of gender, politics, and family life in contemporary Egypt.

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0812214242

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Quest for Conception

Gender, Infertility and Egyptian Medical Traditions

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Gender, Infertility and Egyptian Medical Traditions

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The New Arab Man

Emergent Masculinities, Technologies, and Islam in the Middle East

By: Marcia C. Inhorn

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Emergent Masculinities, Technologies, and Islam in the Middle East

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Princeton University Press

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America’s Arab Refugees

Vulnerability and Health on the Margins

By: Marcia C. Inhorn

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Vulnerability and Health on the Margins

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Stanford University Press

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Motherhood on Ice

The Mating Gap and Why Women Freeze Their Eggs

By: Marcia C. Inhorn

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Motherhood on Ice

The Mating Gap and Why Women Freeze Their Eggs

By: Marcia C. Inhorn

Answers the question: Why are women freezing their eggs? Why are women freezing their eggs in record numbers? Motherhood on Ice explores this question by drawing on the stories of more than 150 women who pursued fertility preservation technology. Moving between narratives of pain and empowerment, these nuanced personal stories reveal the complexity of women’s lives as they struggle to preserve and extend their fertility. Contrary to popular belief, egg freezing is rarely about women postponing fertility for the sake of their careers. Rather, the most-educated women are increasingly forced to delay childbearing because they face a mating gap—a lack of eligible, educated, equal partners ready for marriage and parenthood. For these women, egg freezing is a reproductive backstop, a technological attempt to bridge the gap while waiting for the right partner. But it is not an easy choice for most. Their stories reveal the extent to which it is logistically complicated, physically taxing, financially demanding, emotionally draining, and uncertain in its effects. In this powerful book, women share their reflections on their clinical encounters, as well as the immense hopes and investments they place in this high-tech fertility preservation strategy. Race, religion, and the role of men in the lives of single women pursuing this technology are also explored. A distinctly human portrait of an understudied and rapidly growing population, Motherhood on Ice examines what is at stake for women who take comfort in their frozen eggs while embarking on their quests for partnership, pregnancy, and parenting.

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Local Babies, Global Science

Gender, Religion and In Vitro Fertilization in Egypt

By: Marcia C. Inhorn

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Local Babies, Global Science

Gender, Religion and In Vitro Fertilization in Egypt

By: Marcia C. Inhorn

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Cosmopolitan Conceptions

IVF Sojourns in Global Dubai

By: Marcia C. Inhorn

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IVF Sojourns in Global Dubai

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Duke University Press

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Infertility and Patriarchy

The Cultural Politics of Gender and Family Life in Egypt

By: Marcia C. Inhorn

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The Cultural Politics of Gender and Family Life in Egypt

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Book's by Marcia C. Inhorn

Local Babies, Global Science

Local Babies, Global Science

The New Arab Man

The New Arab Man

America’s Arab Refugees

America’s Arab Refugees

The Anthropology of Infectious Disease

The Anthropology of Infectious Disease

Cosmopolitan Conceptions

Cosmopolitan Conceptions

Quest for Conception

Quest for Conception

Anthropology and Public Health

Anthropology and Public Health

Motherhood on Ice

Motherhood on Ice

Infertility and Patriarchy

Infertility and Patriarchy

Quest for Conception

Quest for Conception

The New Arab Man

The New Arab Man

America’s Arab Refugees

America’s Arab Refugees

Motherhood on Ice

Motherhood on Ice

Local Babies, Global Science

Local Babies, Global Science

Cosmopolitan Conceptions

Cosmopolitan Conceptions

Infertility and Patriarchy

Infertility and Patriarchy

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