Infertility around the globe : new thinking on childlessness, gender, and reproductive technologies / edited by Marcia C. Inhorn, Frank van Balen.

Berkeley : University of California Press, [2002], ©2002.

viii, 347 pages ; 24 cm

Interpreting infertility : a view from the social sciences / Frank van Balen and Marcia C. Inhorn -- Uses of a "disease" : infertility as rhetorical vehicle / Margarete Sandelowski and Sheryl de Lacey -- Fertile ground : feminists theorize infertility / Charis M. Thompson -- Psychologization of infertility / Frank van Balen -- Infertile bodies : medicalization, metaphor, and agency / Arthur L. Greil -- Deciding whether to tell children about donor insemination : an unresolved question in the United States / Gay Becker -- Conceiving the happy family : infertility and marital politics in Northern Vietnam / Melissa J. Pashigian -- Positioning gender identity in narratives of infertility : South Indian women's lives in context / Catherine Kohler Riessman -- Childlessness, adoption, and Milagros de Dios in Costa Rica / Gwynne L. Jenkins with Silvia Vargas Obando and José Badilla Navas -- Problematizing fertility : "scientific" accounts and Chadian women's narratives / Lori Leonard -- Is infertility an unrecognized public health and population problem? The view from the Cameroon grassfields / Pamela Feldman-Savelsberg -- Infertility and matrilineality : the exceptional case of the Macua of Mozambique / Trudie Gerrits -- Infertility and health care in countries with less resources : case studies from sub-Saharan Africa / Johanne Sundby -- "Local" confronts the "global" : infertile bodies and new reproductive technologies in Egypt / Marcia C. Inhorn -- Rabbis and reproduction : the uses of new reproductive technologies among ultraorthodox Jews in Israel / Susan Martha Kahn -- Politics of making modern babies in China : reproductive technologies and the "new" eugenics / Lisa Handwerker -- Conception politics : medical egos, media spotlights, and the contest over test-tube firsts in India / Aditya Bharadwaj.

Includes bibliographical references and index.