Fertility Tourism

Circumventive Routes That Enable Access to Reproductive Technologies and Substances

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ID2221997
AutoresSven Bergmann (0000-0002-6785-9034), FANHong-Yi FANHong-Yi, JIANGNian-Quan JIANGNian-Quan
Ano2011
Volume36
Fascículo2
Páginas280-289
Data de publicação2011-01-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoSigns: Journal of Women in Culture and Society (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0097-9740 • E-ISSN: 1545-6943
EditoraUniversity of Chicago Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1086/655978
OpenAlexW21114072
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas42
Referências citadas13

“Fertility tourism” is a journalistic eye‐catcher focusing on the phenomenon of patients who search for a reproductive treatment in another country in order to circumvent laws, access restrictions, or waiting lists in their home country. In Europe, the reasons why people seek reproductive treatments outside their national boundaries are quite diverse, in part because regulations differ so much among countries. Beginning with four examples of people who crossed borders for an in vitro fertilization (IVF) treatment with gamete donation, this article provides some insight into these transnational circumvention practices based on material from ethnographic fieldwork and interviews in Spain, Denmark, and the Czech Republic. In all three countries, gamete donation is made strictly anonymous. Clinical practices such as egg donor recruitment and phenotypical matching between donors and recipients serve to naturalize the substitution of gametes and to install social legitimacy through resemblance markers with the prospective child. In comparison to other areas of medical tourism, which are subjects of debate as a consequence of neoliberal health politics and international medical competition, mobility in the area of reproductive technologies is deeply intertwined with new forms of doing kinship. For prospective parents, it holds a promise of generating offspring who could pass as biogenetically conceived children. Therefore, IVF with gamete donation is mostly modeled after conceptions of nature. Through anonymity and concealment it creates forms of nonrelatedness that leave space for future imaginings and traces of transnational genetic creators

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