The Business of Being Born
Families are embracing assisted reproduction, as China reevaluates who has the right to reproduce. PDF
Egg freezing is driven by a lack of suitable partners, but men are still very much involved
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...
Why Are Women Freezing Their Eggs
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...
The Arab world’s silent reproductive revolution
Changing household structures, economic growth and contraceptives prompt dramatic drop in fertility rate, study finds.by Inaara Gangji & Muhammad Chaudary Doha, Qatar - When Maryam al-Badr, 20, a Qatari female student at Northwestern University in Qatar,...
Being single in your 30s isn’t bad luck, it’s a global phenomenon
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 (New Texts Out Now)
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...
ESHRE Annual Meeting, Barcelona, Spain, “Partnership problems and not career planning mainly explain why women are freezing their eggs.”
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...
New Directions in the Anthropology of Religion and Gender: Faith and Emergent Masculinities
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...
Why are more young women than ever freezing their eggs?
Stylist.co.uk investigates this growing trend, and speaks to four women who have frozen their eggs.
Male Infertility Is On The Rise — So Why Aren’t We Talking About It?
Sperm counts have been in a free fall in Western countries over the last 10 years, yet infertility is still largely seen as a women’s issue.by Sadiya Ansari Updated May 25, 2018
Published Special Issue: Men and Masculinities: SAGE Journals
Published Special Issue: Men and Masculinities: SAGE Journals "Introduction - Arab Masculinities, Anthropological Reconceptions" by Marcia C. Inhorn and Konstantina Isidoros https://doi.org/10.1177/1097184X17748168 Part I: MASCULINITY IN REVOLUTIONARY TIMES "Men of...
Bioethics in Islam
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...
A Male Infertility Crisis Is Coming. The Middle East Can Help.
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...
Global IVF Tourism
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 Eggology Club—Episode 5, Emotional Rollercoasters
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...
European Society for Human Reproduction and Embryology (ESHRE) in Geneva
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Event Review: The future of female fertility? Egg freezing and social change
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...
Cosmopolitan Conceptions in Global Dubai: A 21st Century Reprohub
Society for Medical Anthropology Marcia C. Inhorn January 25, 2017 Source: Anthropology News, Society for Medical Anthropology Column. Since the beginning of the new millennium, the Arab world has experienced unprecedented levels of political violence and disruption....
Wenner-Gren Workshop – “Arab Masculinities: Anthropological Reconceptions”
Wenner-Gren Workshop - “Arab Masculinities: Anthropological Reconceptions” Convenors: Konstantina Isidoros, Soraya Tremayne, Marcia C. Inhorn, Neffisa Naguib 9.30am-5pm, 22nd March 2017, Middle East Centre, St Antony’s College, Oxford Sponsors: Wenner-Gren Foundation...
The Hot Topic Of Egg Freezing And What You Should Know (Huffington Post)
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...