N Hudson
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 27628 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | N Hudson |
| NOMBRES | N |
| APELLIDO | Hudson |
| FIRMA | HUDSON N |
| AFILIACIONES | De Montfort University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4091-1493 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 26 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 83 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 26 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2000 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 7 |
The emergence and use of expanded carrier screening in gamete donation
With the continued expansion and commercialisation of fertility treatments, the selection and matching of donors have become more sophisticated and technologised. As part of this landscape, new form of genetic screening: ‘expanded carrier screening’ (ECS) is being offered as a technique to avoid the risk of donors passing on genetic conditions to future offspring. Allowing donors to be tested for hundreds of genetic conditions simultaneously, ECS…
The emergence of egg intermediaries in the European fertility landscape
With recent growth in both domestic and global private health care markets and increased medical travel by patients, there has been an increase in the existence of medical mediation services. Whilst there is a developing scholarship that considers the brokerage of this travel, less attention has been paid to other forms of medical facilitation. Taking the example of fertility treatment - specifically egg donation - this paper examines how interme…
Relational dynamite
This article investigates how Direct-to-Consumer Genetic Testing (DTCGT) affects people impacted by donor conception by bringing empirical data on how people in this context respond to a DNA match into conversation with debates on kinship and personal life. Our aim is to conceptually engage with a salient emerging empirical theme, namely that people at the interface of donor conception/DTCGT respond to a (previously unknown) DNA match on a contin…
Exploring the generational ordering of kinship through decisions about DNA testing and gamete donor conception
The development of direct-to-consumer genetic testing (DTCGT), in conjunction with social media, has had profound consequences for the management of information about donor conception. One outcome is that it is now possible to circumvent formal age-restrictions on accessing information about people related through donor conception. Consequently, many donor conceived people and their parents face questions regarding what is the 'right age' to seek…
Artificial intelligence and assisted reproductive technology
In recent years, health-data-driven artificial intelligence and machine learning applications have been introduced to many areas of medicine. In the field of assisted reproduction, artificial intelligence and machine learning applications and related technologies have been hailed as (potentially) significant and ground-breaking, not least because they promise standardisation and automation in in-vitro fertilisation clinics – a precondition for sc…
Egg donation in the age of vitrification
IVF treatment involving donated eggs increases yearly. Numerous technical and commercial transformations have reshaped how eggs are retrieved, stored and managed. A key transformation is vitrification; a 'fast freezing' method that allows efficient preservation of eggs, and therefore more flexibility in use, giving rise to new commercial possibilities. There has been limited focus on egg providers' experiences in the context of vitrification and …
Towards implementation of robust monitoring technologies alongside freshwater improvement policy in Aotearoa New Zealand
International studies point out that some freshwater policy objectives are not achieved. This study describes that this is in part caused by shortcomings that include: the lack of targeted monitoring schemes to measure impact; a too small range of specific technologies rather than a wider suite of integrated multiple technologies; a too tight focus on sub-sets of stakeholders instead of the involvement of the wider range of end users; and poor tr…
From scarcity to sisterhood
The use of third-party eggs now forms an integral part of a global reproductive bioeconomy. In order to meet clinics' growing need for donors, they employ a range of recruitment strategies including adverts for donors via their publicly facing websites. Such websites are also key sites for the articulation and popularisation of culturally specific narratives about egg donation and are therefore a rich source of data regarding the social, cultural…
Nothing will stop me from giving the gift of life’
Online spaces are increasingly important for our collective consciousness and provide an opportunity to document changing ideas, subjectivities and experiences surrounding new reproductive technologies. This paper reports on the first study of egg donation and online discussion boards in UK-based forums. Using thematic analysis, we investigated how donors use online forums and explored how they present themselves as possible donors in online spac…
The missed disease? Endometriosis as an example of ‘undone science’
Endometriosis is a chronic gynaecological condition which has been referred to as the 'missed disease' due to its unclear aetiology and inconsistencies in its diagnosis and management. Unlike other long-term conditions such as diabetes and asthma, endometriosis has remained largely ignored in government policy and research funding globally. Drawing on scholarship from the growing field of 'ignorance studies', this paper considers how ambiguity ar…
Conducting dyadic, relational research about endometriosis
Despite a growing literature on the value of relational data in studies of social phenomena, individuals still commonly constitute the basic unit of analysis in qualitative research. Methodological aspects of interviewing couples, particularly interviewing partners separately, and of conducting dyadic analysis have received scant attention. This article describes the experience of conducting separate interviews with both partners in 22 heterosexu…
Egg Donation Imaginaries
This article considers the sociological utility of the 'imaginary' for understanding how a growing number of women who seek to conceive using donated eggs might make sense of their future desires, hopes and ambivalences. By combining the imaginary with insights from authors working on ideas about everyday or 'ordinary' ethics it considers how deliberations about egg donation take place and how future motherhood is constructed. Three main aspects …
Men, chronic illness and healthwork
Currently dominant in medical discourse, the concept of self-management sees the responsibility for health and illness shift from the state to the individual. However, while this emphasis on individual responsibility and management has burgeoned, the role and status of partners and other family members in the management of chronic illness remains under-theorised. While self-management privileges individual responsibility for the management of chr…
Reproduction research
Fit to father? Online accounts of lifestyle changes and help-seeking on a male infertility board
The reproductive realm is routinely viewed as a feminised space requiring women's commitment and labour. By contrast, men's procreative contributions and 'reproductive masculinity' is represented as unproblematic, with men assumed to be fertile across the lifespan. Recent scientific research has, however, cast doubt over these longstanding assumptions, suggesting that a link does exist between 'lifestyle' factors and male fertility. The notion th…
Making 'Assisted World Families'? Parenting Projects and Family Practices in the Context of Globalised Gamete Donation
As a culturally pervasive technology, IVF and its related techniques have globalised at a rapid rate, spreading to most regions of the world. As one corollary of this development, cross-border assisted reproduction has emerged as a means by which individuals and couples can travel from their country of origin in order to seek access to fertility treatment services in another country. Little is currently known about a novel range of family forms c…
Equality and Human Rights Commission – Is Britain Fairer?
Is Britain Fairer?, the Equality and Human Rights Commission’s statutory five-yearly report on equality and human rights progress in England, Scotland and Wales, was published on Friday 30 October 2015. It is the most comprehensive review ever carried out on progress towards greater equality and human rights protection in Britain, revealing that, while life has become fairer over the past five years for many people, for others, progress has stall…
Asthma management in British South Asian children
Healthcare systems have a responsibility to develop services that are sensitive and appropriate to the needs of their communities. In South Asian communities, further efforts are required to raise awareness of symptoms and effectively communicate how, when and where to seek help for children. There is a need for improved diagnosis and consistent, effectively communicated information, especially regarding medication. Parents made several suggestio…
We needed to change the mission statement of the marriage
The concept of biographical disruption has been widely applied in sociological explorations of chronic illness and has been subject to much theoretical scrutiny, reflection and development. However, little attention has been given to the impact of biographical disruption beyond the individual level. This article explores the concept from a dyadic perspective, utilising data from an exploratory, qualitative study (ENDOPART) that investigated the i…
Transgressing Boundaries
Tuomas Tikanoja’s Transgressing Boundaries is a contribution to scholarship on the salon culture of ancien régime France that has flourished particularly since Dena Goodman’s The Republic of Letters: A Cultural History of the French Enlightenment (1994). Not all scholars have agreed with Goodman’s thesis that the salons presided over by Madam Geoffin, Madam Lespinasse, Madam Necker and other high society women functioned like coffee houses in Eng…
The social and psychological impact of endometriosis on women's lives
Where are all the men? The marginalization of men in social scientific research on infertility
“Public” perceptions of gamete donation
This paper reviews the literature on “public” perceptions of the practice of gamete (egg and sperm) donation in the treatment of infertility. Despite regular “consultation” exercises in the UK on the manner in which infertility treatments should be regulated, there is little sense of how a range of public groups respond to developments in this area. The key themes from thirty-three articles, chapters and reports are discussed. The review reveals …
Constructing Relatedness
This article explores how conceptual frameworks around new reproductive technologies may be influenced by religious and cultural contexts. Using data derived from an Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) funded project on the public perceptions of gamete donation in British South Asian communities, the article discusses women's narratives of third-party assisted conception in infertility treatment, as constructed in focus group discussions.…
Using Focus Groups With Minority Ethnic Communities
Little attention has been given to the specific methodological issues that can accompany the use of focus groups with minority ethnic communities in the United Kingdom. In this article, the authors discuss the use of this method in a study of the provision of infertility services to South Asian communities in three English cities. Focus groups are an invaluable research method for working in a diverse linguistic and cultural environment, providin…
We needed to change the mission statement of the marriage
The concept of biographical disruption has been widely applied in sociological explorations of chronic illness and has been subject to much theoretical scrutiny, reflection and development. However, little attention has been given to the impact of biographical disruption beyond the individual level. This article explores the concept from a dyadic perspective, utilising data from an exploratory, qualitative study (ENDOPART) that investigated the i…
The missed disease? Endometriosis as an example of ‘undone science’
Endometriosis is a chronic gynaecological condition which has been referred to as the 'missed disease' due to its unclear aetiology and inconsistencies in its diagnosis and management. Unlike other long-term conditions such as diabetes and asthma, endometriosis has remained largely ignored in government policy and research funding globally. Drawing on scholarship from the growing field of 'ignorance studies', this paper considers how ambiguity ar…
Using Focus Groups With Minority Ethnic Communities
Little attention has been given to the specific methodological issues that can accompany the use of focus groups with minority ethnic communities in the United Kingdom. In this article, the authors discuss the use of this method in a study of the provision of infertility services to South Asian communities in three English cities. Focus groups are an invaluable research method for working in a diverse linguistic and cultural environment, providin…
Making 'Assisted World Families'? Parenting Projects and Family Practices in the Context of Globalised Gamete Donation
As a culturally pervasive technology, IVF and its related techniques have globalised at a rapid rate, spreading to most regions of the world. As one corollary of this development, cross-border assisted reproduction has emerged as a means by which individuals and couples can travel from their country of origin in order to seek access to fertility treatment services in another country. Little is currently known about a novel range of family forms c…
Egg donation in the age of vitrification
IVF treatment involving donated eggs increases yearly. Numerous technical and commercial transformations have reshaped how eggs are retrieved, stored and managed. A key transformation is vitrification; a 'fast freezing' method that allows efficient preservation of eggs, and therefore more flexibility in use, giving rise to new commercial possibilities. There has been limited focus on egg providers' experiences in the context of vitrification and …
From scarcity to sisterhood
The use of third-party eggs now forms an integral part of a global reproductive bioeconomy. In order to meet clinics' growing need for donors, they employ a range of recruitment strategies including adverts for donors via their publicly facing websites. Such websites are also key sites for the articulation and popularisation of culturally specific narratives about egg donation and are therefore a rich source of data regarding the social, cultural…
Constructing Relatedness
This article explores how conceptual frameworks around new reproductive technologies may be influenced by religious and cultural contexts. Using data derived from an Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) funded project on the public perceptions of gamete donation in British South Asian communities, the article discusses women's narratives of third-party assisted conception in infertility treatment, as constructed in focus group discussions.…
Egg Donation Imaginaries
This article considers the sociological utility of the 'imaginary' for understanding how a growing number of women who seek to conceive using donated eggs might make sense of their future desires, hopes and ambivalences. By combining the imaginary with insights from authors working on ideas about everyday or 'ordinary' ethics it considers how deliberations about egg donation take place and how future motherhood is constructed. Three main aspects …
Fit to father? Online accounts of lifestyle changes and help-seeking on a male infertility board
The reproductive realm is routinely viewed as a feminised space requiring women's commitment and labour. By contrast, men's procreative contributions and 'reproductive masculinity' is represented as unproblematic, with men assumed to be fertile across the lifespan. Recent scientific research has, however, cast doubt over these longstanding assumptions, suggesting that a link does exist between 'lifestyle' factors and male fertility. The notion th…
Relational dynamite
This article investigates how Direct-to-Consumer Genetic Testing (DTCGT) affects people impacted by donor conception by bringing empirical data on how people in this context respond to a DNA match into conversation with debates on kinship and personal life. Our aim is to conceptually engage with a salient emerging empirical theme, namely that people at the interface of donor conception/DTCGT respond to a (previously unknown) DNA match on a contin…
Men, chronic illness and healthwork
Currently dominant in medical discourse, the concept of self-management sees the responsibility for health and illness shift from the state to the individual. However, while this emphasis on individual responsibility and management has burgeoned, the role and status of partners and other family members in the management of chronic illness remains under-theorised. While self-management privileges individual responsibility for the management of chr…
Reproduction research
Consent and antenatal HIV testing
The mood of nihilism that affected HIV is now changing. The availability of new therapies allows for cautious optimism--especially in relation to mother-to-child transmission of HIV and preventative interventions. This has prompted a widespread policy shift towards HIV testing in pregnancy. In this context, informed consent is an ethical issue which needs to be addressed. This study reports on two sets of data exploring consent policy and practic…
Using Focus Groups With Minority Ethnic Communities
Little attention has been given to the specific methodological issues that can accompany the use of focus groups with minority ethnic communities in the United Kingdom. In this article, the authors discuss the use of this method in a study of the provision of infertility services to South Asian communities in three English cities. Focus groups are an invaluable research method for working in a diverse linguistic and cultural environment, providin…
“Public” perceptions of gamete donation
This paper reviews the literature on “public” perceptions of the practice of gamete (egg and sperm) donation in the treatment of infertility. Despite regular “consultation” exercises in the UK on the manner in which infertility treatments should be regulated, there is little sense of how a range of public groups respond to developments in this area. The key themes from thirty-three articles, chapters and reports are discussed. The review reveals …
Constructing Relatedness
This article explores how conceptual frameworks around new reproductive technologies may be influenced by religious and cultural contexts. Using data derived from an Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) funded project on the public perceptions of gamete donation in British South Asian communities, the article discusses women's narratives of third-party assisted conception in infertility treatment, as constructed in focus group discussions.…
The social and psychological impact of endometriosis on women's lives
Where are all the men? The marginalization of men in social scientific research on infertility
Transgressing Boundaries
Tuomas Tikanoja’s Transgressing Boundaries is a contribution to scholarship on the salon culture of ancien régime France that has flourished particularly since Dena Goodman’s The Republic of Letters: A Cultural History of the French Enlightenment (1994). Not all scholars have agreed with Goodman’s thesis that the salons presided over by Madam Geoffin, Madam Lespinasse, Madam Necker and other high society women functioned like coffee houses in Eng…
Equality and Human Rights Commission – Is Britain Fairer?
Is Britain Fairer?, the Equality and Human Rights Commission’s statutory five-yearly report on equality and human rights progress in England, Scotland and Wales, was published on Friday 30 October 2015. It is the most comprehensive review ever carried out on progress towards greater equality and human rights protection in Britain, revealing that, while life has become fairer over the past five years for many people, for others, progress has stall…
Asthma management in British South Asian children
Healthcare systems have a responsibility to develop services that are sensitive and appropriate to the needs of their communities. In South Asian communities, further efforts are required to raise awareness of symptoms and effectively communicate how, when and where to seek help for children. There is a need for improved diagnosis and consistent, effectively communicated information, especially regarding medication. Parents made several suggestio…
We needed to change the mission statement of the marriage
The concept of biographical disruption has been widely applied in sociological explorations of chronic illness and has been subject to much theoretical scrutiny, reflection and development. However, little attention has been given to the impact of biographical disruption beyond the individual level. This article explores the concept from a dyadic perspective, utilising data from an exploratory, qualitative study (ENDOPART) that investigated the i…
Making 'Assisted World Families'? Parenting Projects and Family Practices in the Context of Globalised Gamete Donation
As a culturally pervasive technology, IVF and its related techniques have globalised at a rapid rate, spreading to most regions of the world. As one corollary of this development, cross-border assisted reproduction has emerged as a means by which individuals and couples can travel from their country of origin in order to seek access to fertility treatment services in another country. Little is currently known about a novel range of family forms c…
Fit to father? Online accounts of lifestyle changes and help-seeking on a male infertility board
The reproductive realm is routinely viewed as a feminised space requiring women's commitment and labour. By contrast, men's procreative contributions and 'reproductive masculinity' is represented as unproblematic, with men assumed to be fertile across the lifespan. Recent scientific research has, however, cast doubt over these longstanding assumptions, suggesting that a link does exist between 'lifestyle' factors and male fertility. The notion th…
Reproduction research
Conducting dyadic, relational research about endometriosis
Despite a growing literature on the value of relational data in studies of social phenomena, individuals still commonly constitute the basic unit of analysis in qualitative research. Methodological aspects of interviewing couples, particularly interviewing partners separately, and of conducting dyadic analysis have received scant attention. This article describes the experience of conducting separate interviews with both partners in 22 heterosexu…
Egg Donation Imaginaries
This article considers the sociological utility of the 'imaginary' for understanding how a growing number of women who seek to conceive using donated eggs might make sense of their future desires, hopes and ambivalences. By combining the imaginary with insights from authors working on ideas about everyday or 'ordinary' ethics it considers how deliberations about egg donation take place and how future motherhood is constructed. Three main aspects …
Men, chronic illness and healthwork
Currently dominant in medical discourse, the concept of self-management sees the responsibility for health and illness shift from the state to the individual. However, while this emphasis on individual responsibility and management has burgeoned, the role and status of partners and other family members in the management of chronic illness remains under-theorised. While self-management privileges individual responsibility for the management of chr…
Nothing will stop me from giving the gift of life’
Online spaces are increasingly important for our collective consciousness and provide an opportunity to document changing ideas, subjectivities and experiences surrounding new reproductive technologies. This paper reports on the first study of egg donation and online discussion boards in UK-based forums. Using thematic analysis, we investigated how donors use online forums and explored how they present themselves as possible donors in online spac…
The missed disease? Endometriosis as an example of ‘undone science’
Endometriosis is a chronic gynaecological condition which has been referred to as the 'missed disease' due to its unclear aetiology and inconsistencies in its diagnosis and management. Unlike other long-term conditions such as diabetes and asthma, endometriosis has remained largely ignored in government policy and research funding globally. Drawing on scholarship from the growing field of 'ignorance studies', this paper considers how ambiguity ar…
Towards implementation of robust monitoring technologies alongside freshwater improvement policy in Aotearoa New Zealand
International studies point out that some freshwater policy objectives are not achieved. This study describes that this is in part caused by shortcomings that include: the lack of targeted monitoring schemes to measure impact; a too small range of specific technologies rather than a wider suite of integrated multiple technologies; a too tight focus on sub-sets of stakeholders instead of the involvement of the wider range of end users; and poor tr…
From scarcity to sisterhood
The use of third-party eggs now forms an integral part of a global reproductive bioeconomy. In order to meet clinics' growing need for donors, they employ a range of recruitment strategies including adverts for donors via their publicly facing websites. Such websites are also key sites for the articulation and popularisation of culturally specific narratives about egg donation and are therefore a rich source of data regarding the social, cultural…
Egg donation in the age of vitrification
IVF treatment involving donated eggs increases yearly. Numerous technical and commercial transformations have reshaped how eggs are retrieved, stored and managed. A key transformation is vitrification; a 'fast freezing' method that allows efficient preservation of eggs, and therefore more flexibility in use, giving rise to new commercial possibilities. There has been limited focus on egg providers' experiences in the context of vitrification and …
Artificial intelligence and assisted reproductive technology
In recent years, health-data-driven artificial intelligence and machine learning applications have been introduced to many areas of medicine. In the field of assisted reproduction, artificial intelligence and machine learning applications and related technologies have been hailed as (potentially) significant and ground-breaking, not least because they promise standardisation and automation in in-vitro fertilisation clinics – a precondition for sc…
The emergence and use of expanded carrier screening in gamete donation
With the continued expansion and commercialisation of fertility treatments, the selection and matching of donors have become more sophisticated and technologised. As part of this landscape, new form of genetic screening: ‘expanded carrier screening’ (ECS) is being offered as a technique to avoid the risk of donors passing on genetic conditions to future offspring. Allowing donors to be tested for hundreds of genetic conditions simultaneously, ECS…
The emergence of egg intermediaries in the European fertility landscape
With recent growth in both domestic and global private health care markets and increased medical travel by patients, there has been an increase in the existence of medical mediation services. Whilst there is a developing scholarship that considers the brokerage of this travel, less attention has been paid to other forms of medical facilitation. Taking the example of fertility treatment - specifically egg donation - this paper examines how interme…
Relational dynamite
This article investigates how Direct-to-Consumer Genetic Testing (DTCGT) affects people impacted by donor conception by bringing empirical data on how people in this context respond to a DNA match into conversation with debates on kinship and personal life. Our aim is to conceptually engage with a salient emerging empirical theme, namely that people at the interface of donor conception/DTCGT respond to a (previously unknown) DNA match on a contin…
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