Author | : Kate Hampshire |
File Size | : 43,6 Mb |
Publisher | : Berghahn Books |
Language | : English |
Release Date | : 01 September 2015 |
ISBN | : 9781782388081 |
Pages | : 284 pages |
Assisted Reproductive Technologies in the Third Phase by Kate Hampshire Book PDF Summary
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.