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:...
More Women Are Freezing Their Eggs, But Will They Ever Use Them? NPR’s Morning Edition
Marcia Inhorn receives 2015 Robert B Texter and Family Prize for Excellence in Anticipatory Anthropology
Marcia C Inhorn is this year's recipient of the 2015 Robert B Texter and Family Prize for Excellence in Anticipatory Anthropology. Inhorn is currently the William K Lanman Jr Professor of Anthropology and International Affairs in the Department of Anthropology and...
Q&A with Marcia Inhorn: IVF sojourners in Dubai
By Mike Cummings Millions of people visit Dubai each year on business and for pleasure. While Dubai has emerged as a global hub city for commerce and tourism, it also is becoming an international center for medical care, including in vitro fertilization (IVF). People...
The Iranian (IVF) Revolution
Do you know about the Iranian IVF (In Vitro Fertilization) Revolution? Marcia Inhorn (pictured) does ... because she was alive to see it, and has studied it since in detail. A medical anthropologist at Yale University, she witnessed a massive shift in the Middle East...
Anthropology of Dad
In honor of Father's Day, let's see what Yale Anthropologists have to say about dads in their ongoing research. Dr. Marcia Inhorn is a specialist on middle eastern gender and health issues and founding editor of the Journal of Middle East Women's Studies. Her...
The most predictable disaster in the history of the human race
by Ezra Klein I. Bill Gates is an optimist. Ask him, and he'll tell you himself. "I'm very optimistic," he says. See? And why shouldn't Bill Gates be an optimist? He's one of the richest men in the world. He basically invented the form of personal computing that...
Marcia Inhorn’s The New Arab Man won the 2014 JMEWS Book Award
The Journal of Middle East Women's Studies is pleased to announce that Marcia C. Inhorn's The New Arab Man: Emergent Masculinities, Technologies, and Islam in the Middle East is the winner of the 2014 JMEWS Book Award. This marvelous ethnography is exemplary in its...
“Defining Women’s Health” is Reprinted in Open Anthropology
The article “Defining Women’s Health: A Dozen Messages from More than 150 Ethnographies,” published in 2006, is reprinted in Open Anthropology, A Public Journal of The American Anthropological Association. Marcia Inhorn is author of the next article included in this...
[video] Is Iran The New Leader In Fertility Treatment?
The Islamic Republic of Infertility Treatment? All eyes have been on Iran's uranium enrichment programs - but they've overlooked the country's baby-making programs. We look at how Iran is leaps ahead of its Sunni neighbors when it comes to fertility. Hosted by:...
Honoring a Commitment to Mentorship: Inhorn Receives 2013 Graduate Student Mentor Award
Society for Medical Anthropology, January 2014, Vol. 2 No. 1 Mary Read-Wahidi (U Alabama) Jonathan Stillo (CUNY Graduate Center) Each year, a committee of SMA student members reviews nomination letters for the annual Graduate Student Mentor Award. Each year we are...
Dr. Marcia Inhorn is the recipient of 2013 MASA Graduate Student Mentor Award of the AAA’s Society for Medical Anthropology
Dear Dr. Inhorn, It is my pleasure to inform you that you have been chose to receive the Medical Anthropology Student Association (MASA) 2013 Graduate Student Mentor Award. Of all of the awards supported by the Society for Medical Anthropology, the Mentor Award...
Dr. Marcia Inhorn is the recipient of AAA Middle East Section’s 2013 Distinguished Scholar Award
This biennial award was established in 2006 to recognize the efforts of “a senior scholar in Middle Eastern anthropology who is an outstanding academic in terms of scholarly publications and service to Middle Eastern anthropology.” The 2013 award will be officially...
“I Am With the Uprising of Arab Women” on YaleGlobal Online
It may surprise those who view Arab society as traditional and conservative that many Arab Muslim men are supportive of women’s rights. Marcia Inhorn, a Yale professor of anthropology, interviewed more than 300 men from 14 Arab nations – and reports in Slate that many...
Women, Consider Freezing your Eggs (CNN Opinion)
CNN Opinion April 9, 2013 Egg freezing is the newest reproductive technology: a recently perfected form of flash-freezing that allows human eggs to be successfully stored in egg banks. Only commercially available in American IVF clinics since October 2012, when the...
[Audio] An interview with C.S. Soong on the KPFA/Pacifica Radio program Against the Grain
What can the pursuit of infertility treatment by many Arab and Muslim couples tell us about religion, technology, migration, healthcare provision, gender roles and stereotypes, and violent conflict? Marcia Inhorn discusses her multifaceted research into the situation...
2012 Council on Anthropology & Reproduction (CAR) Prize for “Most Notable Recent Edited Collection”
2012 Council on Anthropology and Reproduction (CAR) Prize for “Most Notable Recent Edited Collection” for Assisting Reproduction, Testing Genes: Global Encounters with New Biotechnologies, eds. Daphna Birenbaum-Carmeli and Marcia C. Inhorn (Berghahn Books 2009). ~ ~...