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SUMMARY:Globalization and Gametes:  Reproductive Tourism\, Islamic Bioethi
 cs\, and Middle Eastern Modernity - Prof. Marcia Inhorn (Department of Ant
 hropology\, Yale University)
DTSTART:20081017T160000Z
DTEND:20081017T173000Z
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CONTACT:Zeynep Gurtin-Broadbent
DESCRIPTION:What motivates the global movements of infertile people search
 ing for assisted reproductive technologies and human gametes?  Inspired by
  recent developments in globalization theory\, medical anthropology\, and 
 science and technology studies\, this paper examines the new global phenom
 enon of “reproductive tourism”\, defined as travel in the pursuit of a
 ssisted reproductive technologies\, usually from one country to another. I
 n the Muslim Middle East\, Islamic bioethical attitudes toward bodily comm
 odification and human gamete donation pose both constraints on and opportu
 nities for reproductive tourism\, particularly between Sunni- and Shia-dom
 inant societies. Based on ethnographic research carried out in "global Dub
 ai" and three other Middle Eastern sites\, this paper will argue that repr
 oductive tourism is an under-theorized manifestation of Middle Eastern mod
 ernity\, and that such modernity is enacted\, contrary to neo-orientalist 
 stereotypes\, in the realm of Middle Eastern gender relations and masculin
 ity.
LOCATION:Centre for Family Research\, Room 606
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