CAS SO 323 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Microsoft Onenote, Medicalization, Sperm Bank
18 Apr 2016
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20th century labor law: yet similar to other kinds of informal precarious work origins of human fertility treatments, 20th century agricultural science for the management of animal herds (ai techniques) Sperm banks were first foray into fertility outsourcing (1960s) Genetic capital oocyte market: availability of ai from the 1970s pushed way for traditional surrogacy as an alternative for adoption. Surrogacy as an alternative for adoption: by the mid-1980s, traditional surrogacy was being replaced by gestational surrogacy, as a separate oocyte market emerged. Initially based on recruiting local altruistically-minded young women, personal relations between vendor and purchaser a must. Contracts were legally untenable, so lawyers relied on psychological screening to identify women least likely to renege. By the early 1990s, marketing eggs moved to emulate sperm bank approach. Capitalizing on the vendor"s genetic capital gestational surrogacy: ivf made surrogacy more popular. Opened up possibilities for women who could not carry pregnancy to term (some of them had good eggs)
