“Reproductive Tourism”: Travelling for Conception and the Global ART Market
Friday, 3 December 2010 to Sunday, 5 December 2010Location: CRASSH, 17 Mill Lane and Downing College
The phenomenon of “reproductive tourism” has now become of undeniable global significance and demands rigorous academic engagement. Also referred to variously as “fertility tourism”, “transnational reproduction” or “reproductive exile”, cross border reproductive care (CBRC) is a 21st Century permutation on the ART landscape, facilitated and driven by the twin forces of commercialisation and globalization. The novel interactions, opportunities and challenges generated by the movements of increasing numbers of persons across national borders in the quest for conception form complex international choreographies, ranging considerably in motive, direction and character. While some paths of transnational reproduction are viewed as a “safety valve” enabling the demonstration of moral pluralism in motion, others amount to the exploitation of existing stratifications. CBRC is not just an innovative inter-relation of travel, consumerism and reproductive medicine, but also significantly impacts gender relations and family formation, and poses new dilemmas for regulatory bodies, clinicians, and those seeking fertility treatments.
This interdisciplinary workshop will bring together leading scholars working on CRBC from around the world to take part in a timely conversation across the disciplines. Together, we will investigate the emerging ethical, legal, economic, social and cultural issues surrounding the growth and globalisation of the phenomenon, synthesize our insights and develop an agenda for future research.
This is a closed workshop
and attendance is limited to contributors.
For administrative
inquiries, please contact E Lamb
For other inquiries, please
contact Zeynep Gürtin-Broadbent on
zbg20@cam.ac.uk
Contributors:
Sven Bergman
(European Ethnology, Humboldt University)
Reproductive Borders, Agency, and Imagination: The
Experience of Germans Seeking Egg Donation in Spain and the Czech Republic
Professor Eric Blyth (Human and Health Sciences, University of
Huddersfield)
Experiences of
Cross-Border Reproductive Care – implications for Counsellors and Mental Health
Professionals
Professor Lorraine Culley and Dr Nicky Hudson (School of Applied Social Science, De Montfort
University)
Reproductive Tourists? UK Trajectories of ART Travel
Professor Petra De Sutter (Reproductive
Medicine, University Hospital Gent, Belgium)
Considerations
for Clinics and Practitioners Treating Foreign Patients: Lessons from Experiences
in Belgium
Susanna Graham (Centre for Family Research, University of Cambridge)
Workshop reporter
Zeynep Gürtin-Broadbent (Centre for Family Research, University of
Cambridge)
Banning “Reproductive Tourism”? The Turkish
Experience
Professor Marcia Inhorn (Anthropology and International Affairs and Council
on Middle East Studies, Yale University)
Diasporic Dreaming:
“Return Reproductive Tourism” to the Middle East
Dr Michal Nahman (Sociology, University of the West of England)
Transnational Reproduction: The Case of Israel and
Romania
Dr Amrita Pande (Sociology, University of Cape Town)
Transnational Commercial Surrogacy in India: Gifts for
global sisters?
Professor Guido Pennings and Wannes Van Hoof (Bioethics Institute, Department of Philosophy,
University of Ghent)
Evaluating the Reactions
by States to Citizens Looking for Medically Assisted Reproduction Abroad
Professor
Naomi Pfeffer (Honorary Fellow, Department of Science & Technology Studies,
University College London)
“Eggsploitation”: what
“Transplant Tourism” can tell us about “Reproductive Tourism”
Dr Francoise Shenfield (Reproductive Medicine Unit, UCLH, London and
Coordinator of the ESHRE (European Society of Human Reproduction and
Embryology) Task Force on CBRC)
Implementing a Code of
Practice: Perspectives from the ESHE Task Force on CBRC
Dr Amy Speier (Anthropology, Eckerd College)
Meshworks: North American
Patients Navigate their Journeys of Infertility
Professor Richard F. Storrow (CUNY School of Law)
Legal Aspects of
Cross-Border Reproductive Care
Dr Sheryl Vanderpoel (WHO HQ, Geneva)
Placing
CBRC within the Framework of Reproductive Rights and the WHO Reproductive
Health Strategy
Dr Andrea Whittaker (School
of Population Health, University of Queensland)
The new 'Sex Trade': PGD and Reproductive Travel to Thailand
Giulia Zanini (European University
Institute)
Escaping
Restrictions, Pursuing Reproduction: Italians’ Experiences of CBRC
Organised by:
Zeynep Gürtin-Broadbent
Centre for Family Research
and Convener, Cambridge Interdisciplinary Reproduction Forum (CIRF)
University of Cambridge
and
Marcia C Inhorn
and Chair, Council on
Middle East Studies
Yale University
Kindly supported by:
CRASSH
The Wellcome Trust (Grant number: WT093960MA)
The Rylands Fund, King's College, Cambridge
Cambridge Political Economy Society Trust (CPEST)
Yale University
For more information about the group, please visit the link on the right hand side of this page.
