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An Anthropological Study on Infertility Treatments as a Form of Medical Tourism

Research Project

Project/Area Number 25370949
Research Category

Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)

Allocation TypeMulti-year Fund
Section一般
Research Field Cultural anthropology
Research InstitutionSeijo University

Principal Investigator

Uesugi Tomiyuki  成城大学, 文芸学部, 教授 (00250019)

Project Period (FY) 2013-04-01 – 2017-03-31
Project Status Completed (Fiscal Year 2016)
Budget Amount *help
¥3,770,000 (Direct Cost: ¥2,900,000、Indirect Cost: ¥870,000)
Fiscal Year 2015: ¥1,170,000 (Direct Cost: ¥900,000、Indirect Cost: ¥270,000)
Fiscal Year 2014: ¥1,170,000 (Direct Cost: ¥900,000、Indirect Cost: ¥270,000)
Fiscal Year 2013: ¥1,430,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,100,000、Indirect Cost: ¥330,000)
Keywordsメディカルツーリズム / 不妊治療 / タイ / アメリカ / LGBT / クイア(queer) / 親子 / 家族形成 / 家族 / 結婚
Outline of Final Research Achievements

The following are the main research findings: (1) In the age of “The Post-Reproduction Revolution,” when advanced assisted reproductive technologies (ARTs) such as egg donation and/or surrogate birth have become a normal practice, these technologies are often carried out as one kind of international medical tourism; (2) A child, who is born by ARTs with the involvement of a person other than a family member, may have “multiple parent-child relationships” beyond the original family, and, as a result, the two or more families involved become “mutually infiltrating families”; (3) Some LGBT couples in the USA “co-parent” children. In such cases two or more adults work together to give birth to and/or raise the children even though all of them are not necessarily the biological parents. Those parents and the children form “extended families”; (4) Some LGBT couples in Japan have also, without fully recognizing the meaning of their practice, started “co-parenting.”

Report

(5 results)
  • 2016 Annual Research Report   Final Research Report ( PDF )
  • 2015 Research-status Report
  • 2014 Research-status Report
  • 2013 Research-status Report
  • Research Products

    (8 results)

All 2015 2014 Other

All Journal Article (2 results) Presentation (6 results) (of which Invited: 1 results)

  • [Journal Article] 「グローカル(化)という考え方」2014

    • Author(s)
      上杉富之
    • Journal Title

      『Re』(建築保全センター)

      Volume: 36巻2号(No.184) Pages: 58-59

    • Related Report
      2014 Research-status Report
  • [Journal Article] 「ポスト生殖革命時代の親子と家族―多元的親子関係と相互浸透的家族―」2014

    • Author(s)
      上杉富之
    • Journal Title

      『法律時報』(日本評論社)

      Volume: 86巻3号 Pages: 70-75

    • Related Report
      2013 Research-status Report
  • [Presentation] This Is a Usual Thing, Isn’t It?: Socio-cultural Implications of “Co-parenting” Practiced by LGBTQs to Changing Family-Building in Contemporary Japan2015

    • Author(s)
      Uesugi, Tomiyuki
    • Organizer
      Anthropology of Japan in Japan (AJJ)
    • Place of Presentation
      天理大学
    • Year and Date
      2015-11-29
    • Related Report
      2015 Research-status Report
  • [Presentation] 「生殖補助医療から「家族」を考える―ポスト生殖革命時代の親子、家族、結婚」2014

    • Author(s)
      上杉富之
    • Organizer
      2014年度家族問題研究学会シンポジウム
    • Place of Presentation
      早稲田大学戸山キャンパス(文学部)36号館681教室)
    • Year and Date
      2014-07-26
    • Related Report
      2014 Research-status Report
    • Invited
  • [Presentation] “Towards the Establishment of a Glocal Academic Network in Asia”2014

    • Author(s)
      Uesugi, Tomiyuki
    • Organizer
      The Mini-Workshop of the CGS (Center for Glocal Studies)
    • Place of Presentation
      Seijo University, Tokyo, Japan
    • Year and Date
      2014-05-17
    • Related Report
      2014 Research-status Report
  • [Presentation] “Glocal Studies”: Formulating and Conducting Studies on2014

    • Author(s)
      Uesugi, Tomiyuki
    • Organizer
      The International Conference of the IUAES
    • Place of Presentation
      Makuhari Messe, Chiba, Japan
    • Year and Date
      2014-05-15
    • Related Report
      2014 Research-status Report
  • [Presentation] 「ポスト生殖革命時代の親子と家族―多元的親子関係と相互浸透的家族」

    • Author(s)
      上杉富之
    • Organizer
      第7回基礎法学総合シンポジウム「親密圏と家族」
    • Place of Presentation
      日本学術会議講堂
    • Related Report
      2013 Research-status Report
  • [Presentation] 「『社会的親』(social parent)と『心理的親』(psychological parent)―アメリカ及びカナダにおける法的な親子概念の拡張―」

    • Author(s)
      上杉富之
    • Organizer
      日本生殖医学会倫理委員会第90回委員会報告
    • Place of Presentation
      日本生殖医学会事務局会議室
    • Related Report
      2013 Research-status Report

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Published: 2014-07-25   Modified: 2019-07-29  

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