Assessing what counts as infertility has practical implications: access to (state-funded)
fertility treatment is usually premised on meeting the criteria that constitute the chosen …

People who are involuntarily childless need to use assisted reproductive technologies if they
want to have a genetically related child. Yet, from an ethical point of view it is unclear to what …

Many countries tightly ration access to publicly funded fertility treatments such as in vitro
fertilisation (IVF). One basis for excluding people from access to IVF is their body mass …

I explore the role that values and interests, especially ideological interests, play in managing
and balancing epistemic risks in medicine. I will focus in particular on how diseases are …

In contemporary pronatalist societies, motherhood and childbearing are constructed as
inevitable fulfilments of the female identity, resulting in the stigmatisation of women who do …

Parenthood is highly valued around the world. Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and
queer (LGBTQ+) people, however, have faced a history of discrimination and challenges …

An increasing number of prospective parents are experiencing infertility along with
associated negative impacts on mental health and life satisfaction that can extend across a …

Mitochondrial replacement techniques (MRTs) usually aim to prevent the genetic
transmission of maternally inherited mitochondrial diseases. Until now, only the UK and …

Globally, procreation is highly valued, and motherhood has long been seen as the
normative role for women. Production of a biologically-related family in keeping with social …

对17 名不孕女性进行了半结构式访谈, 并用解释现象学中Colaizzi 分析方法对资料进行了分析.
结果表明, 不孕女性忍受着医学技术介入导致的生理痛苦, 以期望治愈“残缺化” 的身体 …