Global fertility decline is ringing demographic, economic, and social alarm bells. In a recent New York Times opinion piece, author Jessica Grose asks, “Are Men the Overlooked Reason for the Fertility Decline?” She provides compelling evidence to suggest that this...

Oocyte vitrification, a method to flash-freeze human eggs so they can be stored for later use, emerged in the early 2000s. Initially, the technology was limited to women undergoing chemotherapy or experiencing medical conditions known to cause infertility. In 2012,...

Faced with the high cost of egg-freezing in their home countries, some women are going abroad for a better deal, and a vacation. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/08/style/egg-freezing-procedure-travel.html    

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YwXE3COmbPQ   Date/Time: April 5, 2023, 2-3 pm EST Organizers: Practice Committee Topic: Motherhood on Ice: The Mating Gap and Why Women Freeze Their Eggs Speaker: Marcia C. Inhorn, PhD, MPH (USA) Moderator: Mahmoud Salama, MD, PhD...

It's not about career planning. As a medical anthropologist, I can tell you that women are freezing their eggs because of partnership problems. As a medical anthropologist and gender scholar, I have been privileged to gather egg freezing stories from 150 American...

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Sept. 11 was a devastating event for the United States, causing the senseless deaths of nearly 3,000 Americans and the injury of more than 6,000 others. Sept. 11 was also a tragedy for the Middle East, as the U.S. responded by initiating two wars, one in Afghanistan...

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Dr. Inhorn talks to ELANZA Wellness's Catherine Hendy about key findings from her research that are relevant to how people experience fertility journeys - and some of the ways in which clinics can make care more patient-centered and meet different patients needs....

States of Displacement, Middle Eastern Refugees, Internally Displaced Persons, and Asylum Seekers in Global Contexts.” Special Issue of Anthropology of the Middle East, Lucia Volk and Marcia C. Inhorn, Guest Editors. Volume 16 (1), 2021.

Marcia C. Inhorn, PhD, MPH, is the William K. Lanman, Jr. Professor of Anthropology and International Affairs in the Department of Anthropology and The Whitney and Betty MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies at Yale University, where she serves as Chair...

“Teaching Under Triage,” By Alice Yan, The New Journal As Yale wraps up its first-ever completely online semester, five tenured Yale faculty members, most of whom have been teaching for several decades, speak about how they’ve been handling online teaching while...

Considered the best of the sciences and humanities, modern anthropology necessitates an interdisciplinary approach. Among them you will see anthropologists of every race and gender, exploring complex problems with innovative solutions. These scholars are teachers,...

The Czech Republic has become one of many international hubs for Americans seeking out fertility treatments abroad. VIEW PDF.

The Silent Revolution in the Near East - Birth rates decline in the Arab world, even in conservative states—for both financial and societal reasons. VIEW PDF

By Professor Marcia C. Inhorn Appeared in BioNews 1030 Women are electing to collect and freeze their eggs in the hope of preserving fertility for the future. A common assumption is that this is to allow time to become established in a career but, in fact, only around...

Listen to this podcast by Priscilla Posada in which Yale anthropologist Marcia C. Inhorn discusses egg freezing as a new form of fertility preservation. Prof. Inhorn has conducted a major National Science Foundation funded study of egg freezing in the US and...

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...