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Available Open Access digitally under CC-BY-NC-ND licence.
This book presents an in-depth analysis of the complex and often controversial world of fertility care.
Drawing on extensive ethnographic research and interviews with patients and professionals, the book critically examines the tensions between evidence-based medicine and the demands of an increasingly commercialized fertility care industry. It sheds light on controversial "add-on" treatments, and an emerging hope market.
With its interdisciplinary approach, this is an essential resource for readers in the fields of science and technology studies and medical sociology.
“This is a timely intervention from one of the most important contemporary analysts of the market for fertility services. Perrotta offers a compelling account of why and how they need to be better regulated, as well as what the failure to do so reveals about wider patterns of biomedical innovation.” Sarah Franklin, University of Cambridge
Introduction: Biomedical Innovation in Fertility Care
1. What are Fertility Treatment Add-ons?
2. Evidence Challenges in Fertility Care
3. The Fertility Market: Help, Hype, and Hope
4. Regulating The Hope Market
Conclusion: Fostering Responsible Innovation in Fertility Care
Appendix: Methodology Notes