Background Infertility affects around 12% of couples, and this proportion has been gradually
increasing. In this context, the global assisted reproductive technologies (ART) market …

Research question This scoping review investigates the Ethical, Legal, and Social
Implications (ELSI) of gamete donation, a critical facet of Assisted Reproductive …

Epigenetics, the study of heritable changes in gene expression, has been heralded as one
of the most promising new fields of scientific inquiry. Current large-scale studies selectively …

Regulations governing assisted reproduction control the degree to which gamete donation
is legal and how people providing genetic material are selected and compensated. The …

This study evaluated the retrospective perceptions of egg donors regarding information
communicated about immediate and long-term risks during the process of becoming an egg …

Does the transnational process of gamete selection challenge ways of mobilizing race and
whiteness? Based on a mobile ethnography of the transnational fertility industry, I argue that …

The widespread use of assisted reproductive technologies, coupled with processes of
demographic and social change, are contributing to the normalization of new family …

Taming egg donors is a multi-sited ethnography of the egg donation industry in Spain. It
elaborates the politics of decision-making, information, risk perception, labour, and selection …

In gestational surrogacy arrangements, the womb is often figured as a holding environment
that brings the child of commissioning parents to fruition but does not shape fetal identity …

In the past decade, social scientists and bioethicists have produced a significant body of
work tracking the technical, legal, ethical, and sociocultural development and implications of …