Cosmopolitan Conceptions: IVF Sojourns in Global Dubai
Marcia C. Inhorn is William K. Lanman Jr. Professor of Anthropology and International Affairs in the Department of Anthropology and The Whitney and Betty MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies at Yale University. She is the coeditor of Medical Anthropology at the Intersections: Histories, Activisms, and Futures, also published by Duke University Press.
Hubs: Medical Cosmopolitanism in the Emirates
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Published:July 2015
Dubai is the Middle East’s most “global city,” and the only one from the region to make the top-ten list of medical tourism destinations. Through state-sponsored cultural cosmopolitanism, Dubai is becoming an attractive destination for “global cosmopolitans”—mostly young professional couples from around the world, who are traveling to Dubai for work, tourism, shopping, and medical care. In a clinic called Conceive located on the border of Dubai, infertile couples from around the world seek IVF services unavailable to them in their home countries. Traveling primarily from South Asia, East Africa, Europe, and other parts of the Middle East, these couples...
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