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...
Lots of Successful Women Are Freezing Their Eggs. But It May Not Be About Their Careers.
By Heather Murphy, New York Times, July 3, 2018 “Freeze Your Eggs, Free Your Career,” announced the headline of a Bloomberg Businessweek cover story in 2014. It was the year that Facebook and then Apple began offering egg freezing as a benefit toemployees. Hundreds of...
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...
The Search for Low-Cost Solutions to Infertility
Ten percent of women experience infertility, but policymakers and health bodies don’t see it as a priority. Some experts say the inability to have children should be considered a human rights issue, and are looking for ways to get treatment to everyone who needs it....
The MacMillan Report | Cosmopolitan Conceptions: IVF Sojourns in Global Dubai
Marica Inhorn, William K. Lanman, Jr. Professor of Anthropology and International Affairs, talks about Cosmopolitan Conceptions: IVF Sojourns in Global Dubai. A specialist on Middle Eastern gender, religion, and health, Professor Inhorn has conducted research on the...
Should You Travel Abroad for IVF?
By Anna Medaris Miller Other countries offer more affordable care in appealing destinations, but couples should proceed with caution. Tens of thousands of U.S. residents are projected to have traveled overseas for reproductive health care this year. For three...
The New Arab Man: Emergent Masculinities, Technologies, and Islam in the Middle East
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:...