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Marcia C. Inhorn

Marcia C. Inhorn

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Social Sciences and Humanities

D-Index
54
Citations
13548
World Ranking
2132
National Ranking
1026

Overview

Marcia C. Inhorn is affiliated with Yale University in the United States. Their research spans across social sciences and medicine, with prolific contributions especially in reproductive medicine and sociology. The scientist's work is centered on several overlapping fields including gender studies, public health, and pediatrics.

The core focus of their research involves reproductive health and technologies, demographic trends and gender preferences, Jewish and Middle Eastern studies, reproductive biology and fertility, assisted reproductive technology and twin pregnancy, migration, refugees and integration, as well as Middle East politics and society.

Frequent co-authors of Marcia C. Inhorn include Soraya Tremayne, William Lanman, Philip Kreager, Pasquale Patrizio, and David Parkin. This collaboration network highlights a multidisciplinary approach to their research topics.

They have published often in notable venues such as:

  • Reproductive Biomedicine & Society Online
  • BMJ
  • Human Reproduction Update
  • Science Technology & Human Values
  • Social Science & Medicine

Some of Marcia C. Inhorn's recent papers are:

  • Declining global fertility rates and the implications for family planning and family building: an IFFS consensus document based on a narrative review of the literature; 2023; Human Reproduction Update
  • Where has the quest for conception taken us? Lessons from anthropology and sociology; 2020; Reproductive Biomedicine & Society Online
  • Transgender men's fertility preservation: experiences, social support, and the quest for genetic parenthood; 2020; Culture Health & Sexuality
  • Egg Freezing at the End of Romance: A Technology of Hope, Despair, and Repair; 2021; Science Technology & Human Values
  • Abrahamic traditions and egg freezing: Religious Women's experiences in local moral worlds; 2020; Social Science & Medicine

Marcia C. Inhorn has authored multiple books published mainly by Berghahn Books, New York University Press eBooks, and Stanford University Press eBooks. Some book titles include:

  • Globalized Fatherhood, 2022
  • WAITHOOD, 2020
  • Islam and Assisted Reproductive Technologies, 2022
  • UN-SETTLING MIDDLE EASTERN REFUGEES, 2021
  • Assisting Reproduction, Testing Genes, 2022
  • Motherhood on Ice, 2023
  • America's Arab Refugees, 2020

Best Publications

  • Infertility around the globe: new thinking on gender, reproductive technologies and global movements in the 21st century

    Marcia C. Inhorn;Pasquale Patrizio

  • Quest for Conception: Gender, Infertility and Egyptian Medical Traditions

    Marcia Claire Inhorn

  • Men's influences on women's reproductive health: medical anthropological perspectives.

    Matthew R Dudgeon;Marcia C Inhorn

  • Local Babies, Global Science: Gender, Religion and In Vitro Fertilization in Egypt

    Marcia Claire Inhorn

  • Global infertility and the globalization of new reproductive technologies: illustrations from Egypt.

    Marcia C Inhorn

  • Assisted Reproductive Technologies and Culture Change

    Marcia C. Inhorn;Daphna Birenbaum-Carmeli

  • The New Arab Man: Emergent Masculinities, Technologies, and Islam in the Middle East

    Marcia Claire Inhorn

  • The New Arab Man

    Marcia C. Inhorn

  • Infertility around the Globe: New Thinking on Childlessness, Gender, and Reproductive Technologies

    Marcia Claire Inhorn;Frank van Balen

  • The Anthropology of Infectious Disease

    Marcia C. Inhorn;Peter J. Brown

  • Rethinking reproductive "tourism" as reproductive "exile".

    Marcia C. Inhorn;Pasquale Patrizio

  • Making muslim babies: Ivf and gamete donation in sunni versus shi’a islam

    Marcia C. Inhorn

  • Defining Women's Health: A Dozen Messages from More than 150 Ethnographies

    Marcia C. Inhorn

  • Middle Eastern masculinities in the age of new reproductive technologies: male infertility and stigma in Egypt and Lebanon.

    Marcia C. Inhorn

  • Infertility and patriarchy : the cultural politics of gender and family life in Egypt

    Barbara Ibrahim;Marcia C. Inhorn

  • Feminism meets the "new" epidemiologies: toward an appraisal of antifeminist biases in epidemiological research on women's health.

    Marcia C Inhorn;K.Lisa Whittle

  • Cosmopolitan Conceptions: IVF Sojourns in Global Dubai

    Marcia C. Inhorn

  • Globalization and gametes: reproductive 'tourism,' Islamic bioethics, and Middle Eastern modernity.

    Marcia C. Inhorn

  • Chronic Conditions, Fluid States: Chronicity and the Anthropology of Illness

    Lenore Manderson;Carolyn Smith-Morris;Marcia Inhorn;Arthur Kleinman

  • Embodying emergent masculinities: Men engaging with reproductive and sexual health technologies in the Middle East and Mexico

    Marcia C. Inhorn;Emily A. Wentzell

  • Infertility around the Globe

    Marcia C. Inhorn;Frank van Balen

Frequent Co-Authors

Julia K. Boehm
Julia K. Boehm Chapman University
Jerome O. Nriagu
Jerome O. Nriagu University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Lenore Manderson
Lenore Manderson University of the Witwatersrand

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