SOCY 384 Lecture 9: W8 Capitalizing on Reproduction and Replication
8 Mar 2017
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The human egg trade: eggs vs babies vs donors, law, practice. The baby business - demand: supply and demand collide to produce a market exchange, demand for assisted reproductive technologies (art) is driven by: 10-15 % of any adult population experience infertility (cause does not matter; treatment is sought in any case) Us - 36% of infertile women (2. 8 m) seek treatment. A) reproductive endocrinologists/clinics (2016 montreal clinic owner and practitioner earned over . 5 m) Since inception of ivf, service prices have been stable (1986 one cycle cost. ; 2003 cost ,400 on average, which is only slightly higher than cost-of- living) but uptake has exploded. Prices did not drop as is usual in high-tech development and eventual large- scale distribution: ivf equated to luxury consumption (diamonds and so on) Canadian stats 2003 - 2011: 32 canadian ivf clinics (24 in 2003, 23,000 ivf cycles (7106 in 2003, 2003:
