Based on a critical interpretative review of existing qualitative research investigating
accounts of 'lived experience'of surrogates and intended parents from a relational …

A social vision is slowly emerging of the bioeconomy as an avenue towards sustainability.
This paper presents a systematic review of the existing literature on the connection between …

This new edition of Sarah Franklin's classic monograph on the development of in vitro
fertilisation (IVF) includes two entirely new chapters reflecting on the relevance of the book's …

Black women bear the burden of a number of crises related to reproduction. Historically,
their reproduction has been governed in relation to the slave economy, and connected to …

Natali Valdez a and Daisy Deomampo b aWomenTs and Gender Studies, Wellesley
College, Wellesley, Massachusetts, USA; bSociology & Anthropology, Fordham University …

In this paper, we draw on three ethnographic studies of surrogacy we carried out separately
in different contexts: the western US state of California, the south Indian state of Karnataka …

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 …

This double special issue sheds light on the “demographic anxieties” provoked by the
articulations of major social and political-economic processes that have affected …

Louise Brown, the world's first test-tube baby, was born more than 40 years ago in England.
For Louise Brown's infertile mother, Lesley, in-vitro fertilization (IVF) was the 'hope …

Welcomed as liberation and dismissed as exploitation, egg freezing (oocyte
cryopreservation) has rapidly become one of the most widely-discussed and influential new …