Reproduction in transition: cross-border egg donation, biodesirability and new reproductive subjectivities on the European fertility market

Payne, Jenny Gunnarsson

doi:10.1080/0966369x.2013.832656

Cited by 41 publications

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“…India and the Philippines may provision the world with well-trained English-speaking health care workers (Thompson; Walton-Roberts), but their own populations are often faced with poor health services. And the human body is even cannibalized by economic systems as body parts move around the globe and up the economic gradient to bring fertility (Gunnarsson Payne 2015;Schurr) and replacement organs to those who can afford them (Cohen 2010;Scheper-Hughes 2011). This clearly debilitates the poor(er) while restoring the rich-(er); it represents therapeutic mobility for some, and is deeply un-therapeutic for others.…”

Section: Health Inequalitiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Therapeutic mobilities

2019

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This Special Issue expands mobilities research through the idea of therapeutic mobilities, which consist of multiple movements of health-related things and beings, including, though not limited to, nurses, doctors, patients, narratives, information, gifts and pharmaceuticals. The therapeutic emerges from the encounters of mobile human and non-human, animate and inanimate subjects with places and environments and the individual components they are made of. We argue that an interaction of mobilities and health research offers essential benefits: First, it contributes to knowledge production in a field of tremendous social relevance, i.e. transnational health care. Second, it encourages researchers to think about and through functionally limited, ill, injured, mentally disturbed, unwell and hurting bodies. Third, it engages with the transformative character of mobilities at various scales. And fourth, it brings together different kinds of mobilities. The papers in this Special Issue contribute to three themes key for the therapeutic in mobilities: a) transformations (and stabilizations) of selves, bodies and positionalities, b) uneven im/mobilities and therapeutic inequalities and c) multiple and contingent im/ mobilities. Therapeutic mobilities comprise practices and processes that are multi-layered and mutable; sometimes bizarre, sometimes ironic, often drastically uneven; sometimes brutal, sometimes beautifuland sometimes all of this at the same time.

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2019

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“…It locates intimate and affective labour in global care chains through multiple, sometimes interlocking, circulating networks (Constable 2009;Deomampo 2013;Dragojlovic 2015;Kim 2015;Sun 2014;Sunanta 2014;Yeates 2009). While reproduction appears a private and intimate affair, it is bound up in national policies (for example towards abortion, adoption, provision of contraception, family sizes and one-child families), in what has been described as a 'global market of commercial fertility' or of 'cross-border reproductive care' (Prasad 2008: 37; see also Inhorn 2011;Payne 2015). Parallel movements, tangential to biomedicine, take 'traditional' healers and their patients across borders, as modern communication technologies increase their global reach (Hampshire and Owusu 2013;Parkin 2014).…”

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Reducing the scale? From global images to border crossings in medical tourism

Connell

2016

Global Networks

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International medical travel has increased in the last 20 years, becoming more diverse and complex, although definitions and data on its growth and structure are inadequate. Many countries, especially in the Global South, have sought to develop medical tourism for both strategic and defensive reasons. Few have been successful. Standard descriptions and images of medical tourism suggest global markets, elite patient travellers and the dominance of cosmetic surgery, alongside the privatization and corporatization of hospital chains. Most international medical travel is, however, short‐distance, diasporic, across adjacent and nearby borders, and of relatively poor patients seeking cheaper, more effective or available care in appropriate cultural contexts, for straightforward procedures. Social networks, rather than the internet, shape choices and decisions on destinations. Porous international borders are crucial to medical travel and have resulted in the emergence of formal trans‐border health regions in the North and spontaneous informal regions in the South, alongside some regional hubs and hierarchies. Globalization is less significant than the grassroots transnationalism of borderland health care.

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“…In a study, about half of the participants preferred to have children similar to them 16 . In several extensive studies, couples wanting to receive oocytes/sperms were found to look for donors like themselves 23,24,25 .…”

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Türk insanının oosit ve sperm bağışı hakkındaki görüşleri

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Cukurova Medical Journal

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Öz Purpose: The aim of the study is to determine the views of the Turkish people on oocyte/sperm donation. Materials and Methods: Following informed consent, a questionnaire was given to women and their spouses who presented to obstetrics and gynecology outpatient clinics of a university hospital. The data collection form consists of 35 questions about the demographics of the participants and their thoughts about oocyte / sperm donation. A total of 428 women, including 323 women and 105 men, agreed to participate in the sampling study. Results Sixty-four-point three percent of the women and 71.4% of males found use of donated oocytes/sperms in infertile couples unacceptable. Sixty-three-point one percent of the participants said that both couples receiving, and those donating oocytes/sperms should get counseling. Twenty-one point-five percent of the participants approved of infertile couples' receiving oocytes/sperms donated by their relatives (e.g. sister) and friends and 31,8% agreed about getting them from strangers. Eighty-eight-point seven percent of the primary school graduates, 73.4% of the university graduates and postgraduates, 76.7% of the employed participants, 86.2% of the participants with an income lower than their expenses and 85.1% of the participants with live children reported to unaccept donated sperms if their spouses had a problem preventing them from having a child. Conclusion: More than half of the participants declared that it was not appropriate to have children through infertile-donated oocyte/sperm.

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Reproduction in transition: cross-border egg donation, biodesirability and new reproductive subjectivities on the European fertility market

Cited by 41 publications

References 27 publications

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Reducing the scale? From global images to border crossings in medical tourism

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