... social infertility Australia assisted reproduction altruism settler colonialism ...

... Chapter 1 explores the reproductive options that are available to queer people in Australia who want to conceive children. While queer people can now formally access Australian fertility clinics due to liberalizing laws and the disease entity of “social infertility,” a range of barriers remain...

... Tubal infertility Refugeeism Social suffering British National Health Service (NHS) East Africa ...

... attends to healing social relations to cure the body. The therapeutic logic of three dire maladies—infertility, hydropsy, snakebite—is explored to illustrate disease’s social origins and cure. The author ends with a call to global health officials to take seriously local categories of medicine...

... lingering in her fallopian tube. Although the infection is cured at Conceive with intravenous antibiotics, Rahnia’s eighth IVF attempt—her journey to find “bright light at the end of the tunnel”—comes to an end. Tubal infertility Refugeeism Social suffering British National Health Service (NHS...

... of disease attends to healing social relations to cure the body. The therapeutic logic of three dire maladies—infertility, hydropsy, snakebite—is explored to illustrate disease’s social origins and cure. The author ends with a call to global health officials to take seriously local categories of medicine...