Anthropology 3332F/G Chapter Notes - Chapter 7: Social Reproduction, Endogamy, Sub-Saharan Africa
23 Apr 2021
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Middle eastern masculinities in the age of new reproductive technologies: male. Infertility and stigma in egypt and lebanon marcia c. inhorn. Infertility: the inability to conceive after 1+ years of trying and resulting in involuntary childlessness: impacts 8-14% of couples worldwide, male infertility contributes to more than half of all cases. Western researchers interpret infertile men"s non-response to their surveys as an. Argues that middle eastern men are unwittingly at greater epidemiological risk of a stigmatizing health condition that may be emasculating for both social and cultural reasons. Also argues how icsi technologies are produce paradoxical effects, including increased stigmatization, moral quandaries, and highly gendered suffering in the infertile men who use them. Infertility prevalence rates are lacking for the middle eastern region. Egypt 1990s infertility rate was 12%. No data for lebanon (lacks an official census). Lebanon has 15 ivf clinics in operation, all mostly located in beirut. Egypt has 50 ivf centers in operation, mostly located in cairo.
