...Mohammad Jalal Abbasi-Shavazi; Marcia C. Inhorn; Hajiieh Bibi Razeghi-Nasrabad; Ghasem Toloo Infertility is a social onus for women in Iran, who are expected to produce children early within marriage. With its estimated 1.5 million infertile couples, Iran is the only Muslim country in which...

...Daphna Birenbaum-Carmeli; Marcia C. Inhorn Male infertility, which contributes to roughly 60–70% of infertility cases in the Middle East, is especially agonizing in this region, where fatherhood is crucial to achieving masculine adulthood and community standing. In this paper, we compare the...

... suffering and a little-appreciated aspect of Middle Eastern men's reproductive lives. This article examines men's experiences of varicocelectomy, particularly in Lebanon, where the surgery is commonly carried out on both infertile and fertile men's bodies, despite significant controversy and critique...

... global “reproflow” of patients, gametes, embryos, and women’s surrogate bodies around the world (25, 27). She provides a comparative overview of IVF regulation in several countries and shows why the infertile must travel internationally to access IVF, and why this travel is not akin to a vacation. The...

... East. We very much value your impressive pioneering and important work on medical anthropology, science and reproductive technologies, the anthropology of gender, and religion in the Middle East. Your thick ethnographic accounts of the lives of men and women who struggle with infertility and how they...

... infertility and gamete donation in Iran. Marcia C. Inhorn is Professor in the School of Public Health, the De- partment of Anthropology, the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecol- ogy, and the Program in Women’s Studies at the University of Michigan, where she served as Director of the...

... social impact of infertility and in vitro fertilization in Egypt. Her recent research in Lebanon, the United Arab Emirates, and Arab America fo- cuses on male infertility, Islamic attitudes toward gamete donation, and reproductive tourism. Amalia Sa‘ar (Ph.D., Boston University) is a...

... notice the proliferation of artificial repro- ductive technologies (ARTs) in countries of the Middle East. In Amman, Jordan, for example, a small villa offering infertility services has grown into a multi-story commercial enterprise. This timely collection of essays tackles the...

.... 5, No. 2 (Spring 2009) © 2009 110 CONTRIBUTORS  111 issues, Inhorn has conducted research on the social impact of infertility and assisted reproductive technologies in Egypt, Lebanon, the United Arab Emirates, and...

.... Inhorn’s latest book, The New Arab Man: Emergent Masculini- ties, Technologies, and Islam in the Middle East, opens new terrain for research on masculinity, reproduction, technology, and religion in the context of the ever-rapidly changing Middle East. An epidemic of male infertility among Middle...

... Studies 2013 book reviews  mn  145 infertility treatment after failed attempts in Iran. In the UK clinic he was fully explained the implications of third-party sperm. However, on the couple’s return to Iran, when the wife gave birth to children who bore...

... certain type, for instance blindness, infertility, or accidental injury. This pattern accords with contemporary Arab public health discourses at that time about women’s illnesses, which also focused on blindness and infertility. Female diseases were constructed as specifically female, afflicting the eyes...

... masculinity, reproduction, technology, and religion in the context of the ever-rapidly changing Middle East. An epidemic of male infertility among Middle Eastern men, Inhorn argues, has crystalized a “recalibration of manhood” (1). What it is to be a man, to father, and to produce and head a family...

... to this obstacle. They write reports as if the individual is sterile regardless of his sexual fertility. People wait a long time to get this report. Since the Turkish Constitution allows sex reassignment if a person is infertile, many fertile individuals acquire hospital documentation...

... protagonists involved in the law reform process, as well as with the fi rst surrogates and infertile couples to pursue surrogacy arrangements in Israel, her narrative writing style dramatizes the actions of the main actors on the Israeli surrogacy scene and unfolds at an exciting pace...

.... A specialist on Middle Eastern gender, religion, and health, Inhorn has conducted research on the social impact of infertility and assisted reproductive technologies in Egypt, Lebanon, the United Arab Emirates, and Arab America over the past thirty years. She is the author of...

... they become the writers of the Palestinian water narrative. For Um Muhammad, Musharafah’s midwife and healer, the spring signifi ed a space for social interaction, a place where women could approach her to discuss emotional disorders, matters of infertility, and sadness (74). She relates the...

... having children is essential to becoming a full-fledged member of society. Infertile women and men often live in fear of divorce and loss of family support and struggle with social isolation (Abbasi-Shavazi et al. 2008 , 12–15; Inhorn 2007 ). Thus childlessness can disrupt those zones of comfort and...

... observer would notice the proliferation of artificial repro- ductive technologies (ARTs) in countries of the Middle East. In Amman, Jordan, for example, a small villa offering infertility services has grown into a multi-story commercial enterprise. This timely collection of essays...

... than useful. Many dilemmas that Rothenberg investigates in Palestine were not, in Tunisia, solved by possession. For example, in the case of infertility, when, 30 years ago, the daughter and son-in-law of a close friend of the family I lived with could not conceive, no possession like that of...