2016 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
An Anthropological Study on Infertility Treatments as a Form of Medical Tourism
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25370949
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
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| Allocation Type | Multi-year Fund |
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| Section | 一般 |
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| Research Field |
Cultural anthropology
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| Research Institution | Seijo University |
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Principal Investigator |
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| Project Period (FY) |
2013-04-01 – 2017-03-31
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| 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 |
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| 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.”
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| Free Research Field |
社会人類学
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