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Dr Michal Nahman's Outputs (17)

Introduction: Global fertility chains and the colonial present of assisted reproductive technologies (2022)
Journal Article

The introduction to the Special Section “Global Fertility Chains and the Colonial Present of Assisted Reproductive Technologies”(re)situates assisted reproductive technologies, infrastructures,and markets within older, yet ongoing, histories of colon... Read More about Introduction: Global fertility chains and the colonial present of assisted reproductive technologies.

Global fertility chains: An integrative political economy approach to understanding the reproductive bioeconomy (2021)
Journal Article

Over the last two decades, social scientists across disciplines have been researching how value is extracted and governed in the reproductive bioeconomy, which broadly refers to the various ways reproductive tissues, bodies, services, customers, work... Read More about Global fertility chains: An integrative political economy approach to understanding the reproductive bioeconomy.

Repro-migration: An ethnography of the early days of cross border egg donation between Israel and Romania (2018)
Book Chapter

What can the study of migration and reproduction together tell us about both conceptual arenas and sets of cultural practice? In this chapter, I juxtapose cross-border reproductive practices that occurred in 2002 with practices and imaginaries of bor... Read More about Repro-migration: An ethnography of the early days of cross border egg donation between Israel and Romania.

Receiving, or ‘adopting’, donated embryos to have children: Parents narrate and draw kinship boundaries (2018)
Journal Article

Existing research suggests that embryo donation (ED) may be seen as similar to adoption by those who donate or receive embryos, or it may not. Our qualitative study explored whether having a child via embryo donation initiated kinship connections bet... Read More about Receiving, or ‘adopting’, donated embryos to have children: Parents narrate and draw kinship boundaries.

Romanian IVF: a brief history through the ‘lens’ of labour, migration and global egg donation markets (2016)
Journal Article

© 2016 The Author This paper centres on a history of Romanian IVF, including the achievement of significant milestones and the establishment of key clinics. In addition to examining some of the legal and ethical aspects of IVF in Romania, the paper a... Read More about Romanian IVF: a brief history through the ‘lens’ of labour, migration and global egg donation markets.