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1. Local Babies, Global Science

   Gender, Religion and In Vitro Fertilization in Egypt

   By Marcia C. Inhorn

   In the late 1990s, Egypt experienced a boom period in in vitro fertilization (IVF) technology and now boasts more IVF clinics than neighboring Israel. In this book, Marcia Inhorn writes of her fieldwork among affluent, elite couples who sought in vitro fertilization in Egypt, a country which is not...

   Published April 10th 2003 by Routledge
2. The Anthropology of Infectious Disease

   International Health Perspectives

   By Peter J. Brown, Marcia C. Inhorn

   Anthropological contributions to the study of infectious disease and to the study of actual infectious disease eradication programmes have rarely been collected in one volume. In the era of AIDS and the global resurgance of infectious diseases such as tuberculosis and malaria, there is widespread...

   Published January 22nd 1998 by Routledge