... 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...

...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...

...” 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 reader’s whirlwind...

... 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...

... a nondescript clinic in Dearborn, Michigan, refugees from Lebanon, Iraq, Yemen, and Palestine disclose personal histories shaped by both war and infertility. They are not unrelated experiences, as Marcia C. Inhorn demonstrates throughout this book. The ethnographic accounts she collects over her five years...

... 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 fundamental question of how this rapid...

... on Iran’s fertility transition. He organized panels on social aspects of gamete donation and surrogacy at two recent conferences sponsored by the Avesina Research Institute in Tehran, and has published papers on infertility and gamete donation in Iran. Marcia C. Inhorn is Professor...

...Maisa Taha 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...

.... 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...

... of the American Anthropological Association, and is also the founding editor of JMEWS. A medical anthropologist specializing in Middle East- ern gender and health issues, Dr. Inhorn has written three books on the social impact of infertility and in vitro fertilization in Egypt. Her recent...

.... 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 2000. Many of the disabled female characters in these works are as marginalized as those in the men’s works. However, the patterns of representation differ. In women’s writings the illnesses afflict a certain type of person, namely, mothers, or are of a certain type, for instance blindness, infertility...

... the Turkish Constitution allows sex reassignment if a person is infertile, many fertile individuals acquire hospital documentation declaring them infertile to allow reassignment surgery (Can et al. 2011 ). ...

... 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 are called into question as increasing num- bers of Middle...

..., at the expense of the surrogates, whose possibilities to enact their ideas about these relationships are limited. References Abbasi-Shavazi Mohammad Jalal , Inhorn Marcia C. , Razeghi-Nasrabad Hajiieh Bibi , and Toloo Ghasem . 2008 . “ The ‘Iranian ART Revolution’: Infertility...

... STUDIES dvanced reproductive technologies (ARTs) have been largely nor- Amalized over the past two decades as a standard component of the medical handling of infertility. Still, an exceptional event occasionally challenges established routines and stirs a public...

... 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 four award...

... 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 installation...