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Inhorn, Marcia C.; Wentzell, Emily

doi:10.1215/9780822395478-001

Medical Anthropology at the Intersections 2012

DOI: 10.1215/9780822395478-001

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Marcia C. Inhorn¹,

Emily Wentzell²

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Assisted reproductive technologies and the Iranian community attitude towards infertility

Ahmadi

Bamdad

2017

Human Fertility

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Since the late 1990s, assisted reproductive technologies (ARTs) have been legitimized in Iran through an official religious endorsement. Iran, under the dominant authority of the Shia sect, is now the most enthusiastic adopter of ARTs in the Muslim world, permitting all forms of treatments, including third party donation. This study examined the public perception of assisted conception and its influence on the adoption of these methods in Iran. The study was questionnaire-based and conducted in 2012 in Shiraz, the most populated city in the south of Iran. It included 405 Iranian residents selected through the cluster sampling method. The results indicated that respondents did not support all types of assisted reproduction. Amongst modern infertility treatment methods, IVF (using husband's sperm and wife's egg) was the most widely accepted. Gestational surrogacy and the use of donated gametes were less accepted. Demographic variables including gender, marital status, age, education and employment status were linked to significant differences in public opinion. It was concluded that members of the public require better information about gamete donation and surrogacy, as this could shape infertile couples' decision-making.

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Assisted reproductive technologies and the Iranian community attitude towards infertility

Ahmadi

Bamdad

2017

Human Fertility

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Salutogenic Education? Movement and Whole Child Health in a Waldorf (Steiner) School

Sobo

2014

Med Anthropol Q

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Waldorf education, an independent alternative to public schooling, aims to produce holistically healthy graduates in a formulation that rejects the conventional distinction between education and health. Also striving to bridge that divide, this article characterizes the pedagogically salutogenic techniques Waldorf teachers use in pre-kindergarten (pre-K) and lower grade classes and explicates the ethnomedical understandings underlying them. Waldorf teachers position children as budding participants in a unified field of spiritual and other forces, prioritizing whole-child activities that keep these forces healthfully motile. Their work entails a critique not only of mainstream public schooling's ostensibly pathogenic "head-to-head" focus, but also of the biomedical approach to pediatric health. My analysis of this conjoined critique takes into account the cultural, structural, and existential realities within which Waldorf education's salutary pedagogy is daily framed and fabricated. Further, it explores the implications for anthropology of attending to movement as a key feature of healthful human experience.

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Markets, Cultures, and the Politics of Value: The Case of Assisted Reproductive Technology

Salter

2021

Science, Technology, & Human Values

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Assisted reproductive technology (ART) is a global market engaging a variety of local moral economies where the construction of the demand–supply relationship takes different forms through the operation of the politics of value. This paper analyzes how the market–culture relationship works in different settings, showing how power and resources determine what value will, or will not, accrue from that relationship. A commodity’s potential economic value can only be realized through the operation of the market if its cultural status is seen to be legitimate. At the same time, local moral economies and their associated social orders are potentially susceptible to the destabilizing implications of new commodities. The formal or informal organization of power relationships in the market–culture interaction can enable potential value to become manifest and tangible over time or block its path. The interaction is steered through national institutional sources of cultural authority embedded in state and religion, where the visible contest in the politics of value is conducted. Increasingly, that interaction finds its expression in transnational institutions of governance where the struggle for control of the cultural agenda reflects the global nature of the ART market.

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Cited by 3 publications

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Assisted reproductive technologies and the Iranian community attitude towards infertility

Assisted reproductive technologies and the Iranian community attitude towards infertility

Salutogenic Education? Movement and Whole Child Health in a Waldorf (Steiner) School

Markets, Cultures, and the Politics of Value: The Case of Assisted Reproductive Technology

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