IVF and Assisted Reproduction

1. Introduction: towards a global history of IVF and ARTs2. Historical prelude: 20th-century reproductive science to 19783. The global dynamics of assisted reproduction, 1978-20184. Risk, regulation, and the baby business5. 21st-century newsmakers

Sarah Ferber is Professor of History at the University of Wollongong, Australia. Her books include: Bioethics in Historical Perspective (2013), and the co-edited The Reproductive Industry: Intimate Experiences and Global Processes (2019), and The Body Divided: Human Beings and Human 'Material' in Modern Medical History (2011).

Nicola J. Marks is Senior Lecturer at the University of Wollongong. She researches the social dimensions of science and medicine, including stem cell research and IVF, and is co-editor of The Reproductive Industry: Intimate Experiences and Global Processes (2019). Vera Mackie is Senior Professor of Asian and International Studies at the University of Wollongong. She is co-author of Remembering Women's Activism (2019), co-editor of The Reproductive Industry: Intimate Experiences and Global Processes (2019), and The Social Sciences in the Asian Century (2015).

"Both books achieve their aims well. ... these two books serve well in providing insight into AR practice world-wide ... . Both books offer much of interest and value to those with an interest in this domain: AR practitioners, regulators and policy makers, students and researchers, and general readers seeking to understand the growth, complexity, and impact of the world-wide AR industry." (Ian Smith, Australian Journal of Asian Law, Vol. 23 (2), 2022)

"It is this emphasis on the social, cultural and political - as well as the medical and scientific- that sets this book apart from standard medical histories. ... This will be an indispensable reference work for historians of AR, as it maps out the research, clinical, regulatory and societal paths - including dead ends - towards the point we are at now and poses important questions for how we can understand the opportunities and risks AR poses into the future." (Sianan Healy, History Australia, Vol. 19 (1), 2022)
"Each of the seven chapters has a rich section of references and notes that are very much worth looking at in detail. ... The book can be of interest to a wide audience. ... information useful to those who are new to the field of reproduction studies and also to those more established. ... Here the reader will find an extensive list of scholarly literature ... . It also works as a case study book." (Sandra Patricia Gonzalez Santos, Reproductive Biomedicine & Society Online, Vol. 14, March, 2022)

"IVF and Assisted Reproduction: A Global History manages to give voice to the complexity and depth of its subject area while also providing a sense of the global and national contexts ... . Ferber, Marks and Mackie have provided an impressive overview of the history of IVF and assisted reproduction that is readable and empirically detailed. Their book provides the reader with a broad familiarity with the multiple global forces that have driven the continual development of these technologies." (Erica