... 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...

... Ethnography Cosmopolitanism Medical cosmopolitanism Male infertility Polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) ...

... to Conceive have already tried IVF “back home” or in other clinics in the Emirates. Patients’ critiques of IVF services and their feelings of disenchantment are recounted in this chapter, which includes several “medical horror stories” involving serious cases of transnational malpractice and medical harm...

..., so the contraction “reprotravel” is adopted throughout this book. This chapter examines the extent of global reprotravel, particularly to countries such as India and Thailand, which are developing their medical tourism infrastructures. The Middle East, too, hosts several “reprohubs” in major cities...

...Enigmatic Variations The prologue opens with the popular image of personal genetics in California as a contrast to the collective approach to genomic science in Singapore. It argues that a study of contemporary medical science in Asia should move beyond the binary West–Asia framework...

... Medical tourism Reproductive tourism Reprotravel Arenas of constraint Middle East ...

... Clinical personality Patient-centered care Iatrogenesis (medical harm) Reproductive damage Emirates medicine ...