Biomedical Innovation in Fertility Care
Evidence Challenges, Commercialization, and the Market for Hope
By Manuela Perrotta
Published
Jul 16, 2024Page count
196 pagesISBN
978-1529236743Dimensions
203 x 127 mmImprint
Bristol University PressPublished
Jul 16, 2024Page count
196 pagesISBN
978-1529236750Dimensions
203 x 127 mmImprint
Bristol University Press
Biomedical Innovation in Fertility Care
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
Manuela Perrotta is Reader in Technology and Organisation in the School of Business and Management at Queen Mary, University of London.
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
