Researcher Nancy Smith-Hefner was chatting to university students in the city of Yogyakarta, Indonesia, when she noticed a trend. In a country with near “universal marriage,” where only 2% of women in their late 40s are estimated to have never married, young women...

Marcia C. Inhorn, America's Arab Refugees: Vulnerability and Health on the Margins (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2018). Jadaliyya (J): What made you write this book? Marcia C. Inhorn (MCI): The world is in the midst of the worst refugee crisis since World War...

Embargo: 10.15 CET (GMT + 1) Monday 2 July 2018   This press release is in support of a presentation by Dr Marcia Inhorn on 2 July 2018 at the 34th Annual Meeting of ESHRE in Barcelona. Partnership problems and not career planning mainly explain why women...

SPECIAL COLLECTION New Directions in the Anthropology of Religion and Gender: Faith and Emergent Masculinities   INTRODUCTION by William Dawley & Brendan Jamal Thornton Marcia C. Inhorn  |  Islam, Sex, and Sin: IVF Ethnography as Muslim Men’s Confessional Arsalan...

Abortion. Right to die. Stem cell research. How do Muslims around the world approach modern bioethical dilemmas? This episode, we'll learn why some transgender Muslims are traveling to Bangkok for gender reassignment surgery. And we'll examine how Egypt became an...

By MARCIA C. INHORN New York Times Western men’s sperm counts are falling, and we ought to be concerned. A major study published this July in the highly regarded fertility journal Human Reproduction Update showed that across Europe, North America, Australia and New...

Professor Inhorn agrees that Australian culture is a drawcard for Americans traveling overseas for IVF, combined with the comparatively lower costs. But she suggests that the idea of IVF ‘tourism’ is deceptive. “I’m critical of the notion of tourism being...

The girls discuss the emotional aspects of egg freezing and how the general media or press usually miss understand why women freeze. Yale University research professor, Dr. Marcia Inhorn joins the conversation to explain her key research of why early egg...

03 April 2017 By Jamie RickmanAppeared in BioNews 895  More women are choosing to freeze their eggs than ever before (see BioNews 845). Social and demographic change means the average age of a first-time mother in the UK has risen to 30.3. Since a woman's fertility...

As more women postpone having children until they’re older due to career or finding the right partner, some are choosing to freeze their eggs to use later, hoping to beat age-related fertility problems. Will the investment payoff? Maybe. Until recently, eggs were most...

by BANAFSHEH MADANINEJAD   Winner of the 2015 American Anthropological Association’s Robert B. Textor and Family Prize for Excellence in Anticipatory Anthropology and the 2014 JMEWS Book Award of the Association for Middle East Women’s Studies, The New Arab Man:...