scholarly journals Reprowebs: a conceptual approach to elasticity and change in the global assisted reproduction industry

BioSocieties ◽  
2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anika König ◽  
Heather Jacobson
Keyword(s):  
Assisted Reproduction ◽  
Southern California ◽  
Assisted Reproductive Technologies ◽  
Reproductive Technologies ◽  
Dynamic Capability ◽  
Global Changes ◽  
Conceptual Approach ◽  
Reproductive Services ◽  
Global Art ◽  
Art Industry

AbstractIn the last few decades, assisted reproductive technologies (ARTs) have become increasingly transregional and transnational, often involving travel within or between countries or even continents. Until recently, the global ART industry was marked by so-called ‘reprohubs’—places (such as southern California, Dubai, Anand, and Mumbai) specializing in the provision of reproductive services. While reprohubs continue to exist, in the last few years, many have splayed out, transforming into something more akin to webs that encompass, but go beyond these hubs. These webs show a unique dynamic capability to tighten, entangle, or extend in reaction to local and global changes, a characteristic which became particularly obvious during the global Covid-19 pandemic. In this paper, we propose conceptualizing this new dynamic capability as ‘reprowebs’—an approach that adds a new dimension to the existing conceptualization of reproductive travel and helps us to better understand current developments in the global ART industry.

scholarly journals PROTECTION OF INHERITANCE RIGHTS OF A CHILD BORN WITH THE USE OF ASSISTED REPRODUCTIVE TECHNOLOGIES

2021 ◽  
Vol 1 ◽  
pp. 39-41
Author(s):  
Ksenia A. Zhirikova ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Assisted Reproduction ◽  
Assisted Reproductive Technologies ◽  
Reproductive Technologies ◽  
Surrogate Mother

The article deals with the problems of inheritance by children born with the help of assisted reproductive technologies, in particular, after a surrogate mother, after the death of one of the parents, etc. These problems are not regulated in Russian legislation. The article proposes directions for its improvement in order to protect a child born with the help of assisted reproduction.

LGBT Parenting and Family Formation

Sociology ◽  
2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Damien W. Riggs
Keyword(s):  
Research Evidence ◽  
Family Formation ◽  
Assisted Reproductive Technologies ◽  
Reproductive Technologies ◽  
Division Of Household Labor ◽  
Reproductive Services ◽  
Bisexual And Transgender ◽  
Lgbt Parenting ◽  
Outcomes For Children ◽  
Lgbt People

Over the past three decades, rapidly growing numbers of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people have become parents. LGBT people may become parents via giving birth or by adopting or fostering children. Some LGBT people may use Assisted Reproductive Technologies as part of their journey to parenthood. Other LGBT people may become parents as part of a blended or stepfamily. Overall, research comparing LGBT-headed families with heterosexual and/or cisgender-headed families demonstrates broadly similar outcomes for children. A key point of difference pertains to experiences of discrimination, which can occur when LGBT parents (and their children) access reproductive services, when engaging with their families of origin, in schools, and in terms of broader societal attitudes. Other points of difference pertain to the division of household labor, views on parenting, and beliefs about the needs of children. In many respects, the research evidence suggests that, across these three areas, LGBT parents engage in practices that positively benefit their children.

scholarly journals Impact of COVID-19 on assisted reproductive technologies and its multifacet influence on global bioeconomy

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 ◽  
pp. 92-104
Author(s):  
Olugbemi Tope Olaniyan ◽  
Charles O. Adetunji ◽  
Gloria E. Okotie ◽  
Olorunsola Adeyomoye ◽  
Osikemekha A. Anani ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Reproductive Health ◽  
Global Economy ◽  
Health Care Services ◽  
Assisted Reproductive Technologies ◽  
Work Load ◽  
Reproductive Technologies ◽  
Active Constituent ◽  
Care Services ◽  
Travel Restrictions ◽  
Reproductive Services

Several nations of the world have issued instructions such as travel restrictions, border closure, and lockdown, plus other directives proposing that non-essential care must be withdrawn including assisted reproductive services, in an attempt to identify resources to ascertain the dissemination of SARS-CoV-2. This has led to massive shortage in medical supplies, inappropriate service delivery, hike in price, decrease in staff work load, salary cut, decrease in the utilization of qualitative maternal, and reproductive health-care services thereby creating high risk on reproductive health and global bioeconomy. The search for right candidate for the management of coronavirus disease 2019 and several reproductive health challenges begins with the screening of natural products to identify novel active constituent. Moreover, there is need to pay more attention to crucial phytochemical, bioactive fractions, phytoanalysis, and phytopharmacological investigation for effective drug discovery most especially these bioresources from beneficial microorganisms, plants, and ocean deposits that could help in mitigation of SARS-CoV-2 and reproduction health challenges through chemoinformatics, informatics, synthetic biology, nanotechnology, and metabolomics hence boosting the global economy.

Assisted reproduction for HIV-infected couples

Sexual Health ◽  
2005 ◽  
Vol 2 (4) ◽  
pp. 223
Author(s):  
Michelle Giles ◽  
Anne Mijch ◽  
Suzanne Garland
Keyword(s):  
Assisted Reproduction ◽  
Pregnancy Outcomes ◽  
Hiv Transmission ◽  
Assisted Reproductive Technologies ◽  
Reproductive Technologies ◽  
Outcome Data ◽  
Adverse Outcomes ◽  
Perinatal Hiv ◽  
Desire To Have Children

Many HIV-infected individuals are in relationships with HIV-uninfected partners and desire to have children. This review focuses on the issue of reproductive choices for these couples, in particular assisted reproductive technologies, and summarises the published outcome data currently available. The results thus far from assisted reproductive technologies in optimising pregnancy outcomes and reducing heterosexual and perinatal HIV transmission are promising. In the future, it is essential that there is ongoing reporting of outcome data, publication of methodology and follow-up, and reporting of adverse outcomes.

Cancer Genetic Testing and Assisted Reproduction

2006 ◽  
Vol 24 (29) ◽  
pp. 4775-4782 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kenneth Offit ◽  
Kelly Kohut ◽  
Bartholt Clagett ◽  
Eve A. Wadsworth ◽  
Kelly J. Lafaro ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Genetic Testing ◽  
Assisted Reproduction ◽  
Assisted Reproductive Technologies ◽  
Familial Cancer ◽  
Genetic Diagnosis ◽  
Young Patients ◽  
The United States ◽  
Reproductive Technologies ◽  
Cancer Genetic ◽  
Cancer Syndromes

Purpose Because of increasing uptake of cancer genetic testing and the improving survival of young patients with cancer, health care practitioners including oncologists will increasingly be asked about options for assisted reproduction by members of families affected by hereditary cancer syndromes. Among these reproductive options, preimplantation genetic diagnosis (PGD) offers the opportunity to select embryos without familial cancer-predisposing mutations. Methods A review of the published literature supplemented by a survey of PGD centers in the United States. Results Prenatal diagnosis and/or embryo selection after genetic testing has already been performed in the context of more than a dozen familial cancer syndromes, including the common syndromes of genetic predisposition to colon and breast cancer. Conclusion While constituting new reproductive options for families affected by cancer, the medical indications and ethical acceptance of assisted reproductive technologies for adult-onset cancer predisposition syndromes remain to be defined. Continued discussion of the role of PGD in the reproductive setting is needed to inform the responsible use of these technologies to decrease the burden of heritable cancers.

scholarly journals Gender and social controversies of in vitro fertilization in Serbia: Discrimination against childless women

Temida ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 17 (3) ◽  
pp. 49-68
Author(s):  
Ksenija Krickovic-Pele ◽  
Kosana Beker
Keyword(s):  
In Vitro Fertilization ◽  
Assisted Reproduction ◽  
Critical Analysis ◽  
Assisted Reproductive Technologies ◽  
Reproductive Technologies ◽  
Fertilization Program ◽  
Vitro Fertilization ◽  
Childless Women ◽  
Gynecology And Obstetrics

This paper analyses gender and social controversies of assisted reproductive technologies and the discrimination of childless women in Serbia. Primary goals of this paper are critical analysis of new reproductive technologies phenomenon, discrimination against women without children and critical analysis of the legal framework regulating biomedical assisted reproduction in Serbia from gender studies and feminist methodology perspectives, as well as presentation of the research results on discrimination of childless women. For the purpose of this research the survey and the content analysis have been used. A survey was conducted of 50 female participants in the in vitro fertilization program at the Department for Gynecology and Obstetrics in Novi Sad. The results indicate that the regulations on biomedical assisted reproduction and the criteria for inclusion in the in vitro fertilization program are discriminatory and that women involved in the program feel discriminated against, usually at work and in their own surroundings. The conclusion is that it is necessary to change the regulations governing this area, further work on the elimination of discrimination against childless women and destigmatisation of women and couples that cannot or do not want to have children.

Exploring the Multiplicity of Embodied Agency in Colombian Assisted Reproduction

2021 ◽  
Vol 27 (4) ◽  
pp. 55-80
Author(s):  
Malissa Kay Shaw
Keyword(s):  
Social Change ◽  
Assisted Reproduction ◽  
Assisted Reproductive Technologies ◽  
Diagnostic Procedures ◽  
Reproductive Technologies ◽  
Multiple Forms ◽  
Assisted Conception ◽  
Women's Narratives ◽  
Embodied Experiences ◽  
Embodied Agency

Analyses of assisted reproductive technologies have demonstrated how objectification and agency can coexist in infertility centres. How objectification creates opportunities for empowerment, however, has not yet been explored. In analysing women’s narratives of assisted conception in Colombian infertility clinics, I demonstrate the complexity in women’s embodied experiences of various objectifying stages of assisted conception and argue that their experiences produced multiple forms of embodied agency. Women used diagnostic procedures to learn about their bodies and infertility complications, which augmented their authority over their bodies and treatment. They drew upon their embodied knowledge to reduce treatment anxieties, while sensations such as pain were made purposeful, and hence meaningful, as women strove to reconfigure the significance of the embodied sensations of conception in a context of medicalized reproduction. In these narratives, we see that lived bodies are productive agents of social change, generating meanings and working to reshape dominant social understandings.

scholarly journals Development of reprogenetics and its demographic aspects

Stanovnistvo ◽  
2004 ◽  
Vol 42 (1-4) ◽  
pp. 45-65
Author(s):  
Mirjana Devedzic
Keyword(s):  
Assisted Reproduction ◽  
Assisted Reproductive Technologies ◽  
Developed Countries ◽  
Reproductive Technologies ◽  
Demographic Development ◽  
Marriage And Family ◽  
Vitro Fertilization ◽  
Number Of Children ◽  
Quantitative Indicators

The development of reprogenetics during the last two decades of the XX century has brought a new age of reproduction. The paper surveys different types of reprogenetics in a wider sense, i.e. different assisted reproductive technologies (ART) that include manipulation of female reproductive cell out of a woman's womb. Development of reprogenetics is documented by available quantitative indicators of the number and success of ART procedures in developed countries at the beginning of the XXI century. Since 1978, when the first baby was born from in vitro fertilization, the number of children born that way has reached 1% of all children, and in some countries even over 3%. Moreover, existing documentation is incomplete and does not include all forms of assisted reproduction - in reality, the importance of assisted reproduction is even higher and becomes demographically significant. Hence the paper indicates existing and potential effects of the ART development on the demographic development i.e. on specific demographic aspects of this phenomenon. It also points out the effects on the level of fertility, on the changes of direct fertility determinants, and on the levels of mortality and infant mortality, as well as a new understanding of birth control, the possibility of affecting biological structures, and the changes of the fundaments of marriage and family. Development perspectives of reprogenetics are also being raised in the context of bioethical discussions and indicate ethical dilemmas related to assisted reproduction. Solutions to the dilemmas define the scope of applying new reproductive technologies in the future.

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