Assisted Reproductive Technologies in the Third Phase
( Fertility, Reproduction and Sexuality: Social and Cultural Perspectives )
Publication series ：Fertility, Reproduction and Sexuality: Social and Cultural Perspectives
Author： Hampshire Kate;Simpson Bob
Publisher： Berghahn Books
Publication year： 2015
E-ISBN: 9781782388081
P-ISBN(Paperback): 9781782388074
Subject： R-052 Medical Ethics
Keyword： 基础医学,社会学
Language： ENG
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Description
Following the birth of the first "test-tube baby" in 1978, Assisted Reproductive Technologies became available to a small number of people in high-income countries able to afford the cost of private treatment, a period seen as the "First Phase" of ARTs. In the "Second Phase," these treatments became increasingly available to cosmopolitan global elites. Today, this picture is changing - albeit slowly and unevenly - as ARTs are becoming more widely available. While, for many, accessing infertility treatments remains a dream, these are beginning to be viewed as a standard part of reproductive healthcare and family planning. This volume highlights this "Third Phase" - the opening up of ARTs to new constituencies in terms of ethnicity, geography, education, and class.