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Each year, more and more Americans travel out of the country seeking low cost medical treatments abroad, including fertility treatments such as in vitro fertilization (IVF). As the lower middle classes of the United States have been priced out of an expensive privatized “baby business,” the Czech Republic has emerged as a central hub of fertility tourism, offering a plentitude of blonde-haired, blue-eyed egg donors at a fraction of the price.Fertility Holidays presents a critical analysis of white, working class North Americans’ motivations and experiences when traveling to Central Europe for donor egg IVF. Within this diaspora, patients become consumers, urged on by the representation of a white Europe and an empathetic health care system, which seems nonexistent at home. As the volume traces these American fertility journeys halfway around the world, it uncovers layers of contradiction embedded in global reproductive medicine. Speier reveals the extent to which reproductive travel heightens the hope ingrained in reproductive technologies, especially when the procedures are framed as “holidays.” The pitch of combining a vacation with their treatment promises couples a stress-free IVF cycle; yet, in truth, they may become tangled in fraught situations as they endure an emotionally wrought cycle of IVF in a strange place.Offering an intimate, first-hand account of North Americans’ journeys to the Czech Republic for IVF, Fertility Holidays exposes reproductive travel as a form of consumption which is motivated by complex layers of desire for white babies, a European vacation, better health care, and technological success.
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In Taking Baby Steps, Jody Lyneé Madeira takes readers inside the infertility experience, from dealing with infertility-related emotions to forming treatment relationships with medical professionals and confronting difficult medical decisions. Based on hundreds of interviews, this book investigates how women, men, and medical professionals negotiate infertility's rocky terrain to create life and build families-a journey across personal, medical, legal, and ethical minefields that can test mental and physical health, friendships and marriages, spirituality, and financial security.
Conception. --- Human reproductive technology. --- Patient education. --- Infertility --- Fertility clinics --- Involuntary childlessness --- Sterility --- Sterility in humans --- Childlessness --- Generative organs --- Fertility, Human --- Sterilization (Birth control) --- Fertility clinic services --- Fertility services --- Infertility clinics --- Infertility services --- Clinics --- Education of patients --- Patients --- Sick --- Health education --- Assisted conception --- Assisted human reproduction --- Assisted human reproductive technology --- Conception --- Human assisted reproduction --- Human assisted reproductive technology --- Human reproduction --- Medical technology --- Reproductive technology --- Fertilization, Human --- Human fertilization --- Fertilization (Biology) --- Contraception --- Psychological aspects. --- Alternative treatment. --- Evaluation. --- Counseling of --- Moral and ethical aspects. --- Diseases --- Education --- Technological innovations --- childbirth. --- conception. --- domestic. --- emotions. --- ethics. --- family law. --- family life. --- family. --- finance. --- financial. --- health and wellness. --- infertile. --- infertility treatment. --- infertility. --- interview. --- ivf. --- legal issues. --- marriage. --- medical care. --- medical professional. --- medical. --- mental health. --- morals. --- motherhood. --- physical health. --- pregnancy. --- reproduction. --- reproductive health. --- sex. --- sexuality. --- spirituality. --- true story.
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