Testing Boundaries, Finding Limits
This chapter charts the ways in which assisted reproduction (AR) has challenged long-held views about the boundaries of reproduction. It examines the recent redefinition of infertility itself, to show that AR has permitted families to be imagined and crea
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Sarah Ferber · Nicola J. Marks · Vera Mackie
IVF and Assisted Reproduction
Sarah Ferber • Nicola J. Marks Vera Mackie
IVF and Assisted Reproduction A Global History
Sarah Ferber University of Wollongong Wollongong, NSW, Australia
Nicola J. Marks University of Wollongong Wollongong, NSW, Australia
Vera Mackie University of Wollongong Wollongong, NSW, Australia
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Acknowledgements
The research for this monograph was supported by an Australian Research Council Discovery Project grant (DP150101081). We thank the Victorian Assisted Reproductive Treatment Authority (VARTA) for access to its archives and for the advice of staff. We acknowledge the Comité consultatif national d’éthique pour les sciences de la vie et de la santé for their welcome during a trip to Paris. Glen Menzies of Copyright Agency, Sydney, provided generous assistance in securing our use of the cover image. Our colleagues at the University of Wollongong library have provided continued support for the requirements of the project. We are very grateful for the advice and assistance we received from Rebecca Albury, Raphaël Benhamou, Megan Brayshaw, Leigh Dale, Simon Flanagan, Samantha Hollingworth, Anna
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