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Conceptualizing aged reproduction: genetic connectedness, son preference and assisted reproduction in North India 概念化老年生殖:遗传联系，儿子偏好和辅助生殖在北印度

Reproductive Biomedicine and Society Online Pub Date : 2022-03-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.rbms.2021.11.005

Anindita Majumdar

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Is perceived inability to procreate associated with life satisfaction? Evidence from a German panel study 感知到的生育能力与生活满意度有关吗?来自德国小组研究的证据

Reproductive Biomedicine and Society Online Pub Date : 2022-03-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.rbms.2021.09.004

Julia McQuillan , Jasmin Passet-Wittig , Arthur L. Greil , Martin Bujard

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引用次数: 2

Parenthood aspirations and understanding of factors that affect the chance of achieving them: A population survey 为人父母的愿望和对影响实现愿望的因素的了解:一项人口调查

Reproductive Biomedicine and Society Online Pub Date : 2022-03-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.rbms.2021.11.006

Karin Hammarberg , Renee de Silva

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引用次数: 2

Financing future fertility: Women’s views on funding egg freezing 资助未来生育:女性对资助冷冻卵子的看法

Reproductive Biomedicine and Society Online Pub Date : 2022-03-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.rbms.2021.07.001

Molly Johnston , Giuliana Fuscaldo , Stella May Gwini , Sally Catt , Nadine Maree Richings

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引用次数: 10

Metabolic risk factors and fertility disorders: A narrative review of the female perspective 代谢危险因素和生育障碍:女性视角的叙事回顾

Reproductive Biomedicine and Society Online Pub Date : 2022-03-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.rbms.2021.09.002

Ronny Westerman , Anne-Kristin Kuhnt

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The Duogynon controversy and ignorance production in post-thalidomide West Germany 后沙利度胺时代西德的“双雄”争议与无知生产

Reproductive Biomedicine and Society Online Pub Date : 2022-03-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.rbms.2021.09.003

Birgit Nemec , Jesse Olszynko-Gryn

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Symposium: Risk, innovation and ignorance production in the field of reproductive biomedicine 专题讨论会:生殖生物医学领域的风险、创新和无知生产

Reproductive Biomedicine and Society Online Pub Date : 2022-03-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.rbms.2021.11.003

Susan E. Bell

引用次数: 1

At risk of reproductive disadvantage? Exploring fertility awareness among migrant women in Germany 有生殖劣势的风险?探讨德国移民妇女的生育意识

Reproductive Biomedicine and Society Online Pub Date : 2022-03-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.rbms.2021.11.007

Nadja Milewski , Sonja Haug

{"title":"At risk of reproductive disadvantage? Exploring fertility awareness among migrant women in Germany","authors":"Nadja Milewski , Sonja Haug","doi":"10.1016/j.rbms.2021.11.007","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.rbms.2021.11.007","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>This study examined awareness about fertility among immigrant women and non-migrants in Germany. The social relevance of infertility and fertility treatment is increasing in Western countries due to continually low overall birth rates, a high rate of childlessness, and a gap between the desired and actual numbers of children. While there is growing interest in infertility and reproductive medicine in general, previous studies have rarely included immigrant or ethnic minorities in Europe. This study investigated whether knowledge on the age-related fertility decline (ARFD) varies between migrant groups and the majority group, and the role of education. Working hypotheses were drawn from theoretical considerations on frameworks of migrant assimilation. The analysis was based on data collected in a social science pilot study on reproductive medicine, representative of the general population (‘NeWiRe’ 2014–2015). The sample included 962 women aged 18–50 years living in Germany. Approximately 81% of the sample were immigrants who originated from Turkey, Poland, the Balkan countries or countries of the (post-Soviet) Commonwealth of Independent States. While rather poor overall, knowledge on ARFD was found to be significantly lower in the migrant groups compared with the majority group. This minority-group disadvantage cannot be explained by sociodemographic or cultural variables. Future research should include minority groups in empirical studies on awareness about fertility in order to better understand the causes of this disadvantage, and the potential reproductive needs of migrants.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":37973,"journal":{"name":"Reproductive Biomedicine and Society Online","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8828951/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"39927442","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

引用次数: 1

Ignoring international alerts? The routinization of episiotomy in France in the 1980s and 1990s 无视国际警报?20世纪八九十年代法国外阴切开术的常规化

Reproductive Biomedicine and Society Online Pub Date : 2022-03-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.rbms.2021.07.002

Lola Mirouse

{"title":"Ignoring international alerts? The routinization of episiotomy in France in the 1980s and 1990s","authors":"Lola Mirouse","doi":"10.1016/j.rbms.2021.07.002","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.rbms.2021.07.002","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>As scientific evidence from the UK and the USA in the 1980s was questioning the usefulness of episiotomy, the rate in France increased from 38% in 1981 to 58.4% in 1996. In 1996, the World Health Organization recommended limiting the episiotomy rate to 10%. This article aims to examine this paradox through an analysis of the French medical debate on episiotomy during the 1980s and 1990s. Drawing on an analytical corpus composed of 192 articles published in French professional journals of obstetrician-gynaecologists and midwives, it shows that the majority of these health professionals considered episiotomy to be a preventive intervention. The most influential professional organizations and experts manage to refute most of the international alerts on the limitations and side effects of episiotomy through the constant production of new justifications and competing knowledge for the procedure. In the 1980s, episiotomy was seen as a means to prevent tearing and thus avoid perineal dysfunction. Episiotomy and perineal re-education (which developed into a new health sector) were put forward as ‘the’ solution to the problem. From the mid-1990s onwards, the focus shifted from the mother to the baby as episiotomy was promoted as a way to reduce the risk of newborn mortality and morbidity. This article shows that the alerts and controversies on the assumed iatrogenic effects of biomedical technologies and practices were silenced through efficient and dynamic production of competing knowledge about their assumed benefits.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":37973,"journal":{"name":"Reproductive Biomedicine and Society Online","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/j.rbms.2021.07.002","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"39555566","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Silences, omissions and oversimplification? The UK debate on mitochondrial donation 沉默、遗漏和过度简化?英国关于线粒体捐赠的辩论

Reproductive Biomedicine and Society Online Pub Date : 2022-03-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.rbms.2021.07.005

Cathy Herbrand

{"title":"Silences, omissions and oversimplification? The UK debate on mitochondrial donation","authors":"Cathy Herbrand","doi":"10.1016/j.rbms.2021.07.005","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.rbms.2021.07.005","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Drawing on scholarship from ignorance studies, this paper uses the case of the UK debates on mitochondrial donation (2012–2015) to emphasize the importance of deploying an analysis of ignorance that goes beyond medical and safety concerns when scrutinizing debates or campaigns around new reproductive technologies. In contrast to what happened with previous reproductive health treatments or drugs, the potential medical risks of mitochondrial donation were explicitly acknowledged and examined during its public and parliamentary discussions. However, I show, using the concepts of ‘acknowledged unknowns’ and ‘ignored knowns’, how the attention drawn to the medical risks contributed to obscuring the assessment of its economic and social impacts by silencing key knowledge regarding the limitations of mitochondrial donation in relation to the potential beneficiaries, the scope of the techniques, their alternatives and their costs. This article therefore calls for more systematic use of an integrated analytical framework of ignorance to be applied in the field of reproductive public policies, paying particular attention not only to the ways that medical risks are addressed, but also to the type of knowledge and disciplines this allows to silence or side-line in the framing and assessment of new biotechnologies.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":37973,"journal":{"name":"Reproductive Biomedicine and Society Online","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/j.rbms.2021.07.005","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"39704914","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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