Middle Eastern Gender Identity and New Reproductive Technology

0217299密歇根大学的一位人类学家进行了一项研究，研究阿拉伯文化中的男性身份如何受到男性不育症的影响。该项目研究新的生殖技术如何在中东使用（或不使用），在那里，虔诚的穆斯林男子被禁止接受捐赠者授精或法律的收养。该项目将研究生殖技术的使用，包括胞浆内精子注射（一种允许严重不育的男性生育自己亲生子女的技术）在埃及的一个城市和半农村不育诊所，以及底特律的中东男性，底特律是美国人口最多的城市。该项目将在埃及采访100名不育男子，以及100名生育男子的对照样本，以及不育男子的妻子和医学专家的较小样本，以了解当父亲身份，婚姻和男子气概本身可能受到威胁时，如何做出道德和务实的决定。一些假设将被测试连接男性不育症的文化相关因素，如吸烟，血缘关系，铅暴露，以及男性气质，婚姻关系，就医，和道德。中东男性到美国接受不孕症治疗的“医疗移民”将通过两个阿拉伯裔美国人医疗中心进行研究。通过对男性、他们的妻子和医学专家的深入访谈，将研究西方背景对中东男性宗教道德的影响。这项研究将促进我们对中东文化背景下男性身份和男性气质的理解，并应引起那些关心中东文化和社会性质的人的广泛兴趣。

0217299InhornThis project by an anthropologist from the University of Michigan studies how masculine identity in Arab culture is affected by male infertility. The project studies how new reproductive technologies are used (or not used) in the Middle East, where religiously observant Muslim men are prohibited from accepting donor insemination or legal adoption. The project will study the use of reproductive technologies, including intracytoplasmic sperm injection (a technique which allows severely infertile men to father their own biological children) in an urban and a semi-rural infertility clinic in Egypt, as well as among Middle East men in Detroit, a city with the largest such population in the US. The project will interview in Egypt 100 infertile men, as well as a control sample of 100 fertile men, as well as a smaller sample of infertile men's wives, and medical specialists to understand how moral as well as pragmatic decisions are made when fatherhood, marriage, and a sense of manhood itself may be at stake. Several hypotheses will be tested linking male infertility to culturally relevant factors such as smoking, consanguinity, lead exposure, and also to the sense of masculinity, marital relations, medical treatment-seeking, and morality. The "medical migration" of Middle Eastern men to the US for infertility treatment will be studied through a focus on two Arab-American medical centers. The impact of the Western context on religious morality of Middle Eastern men will be studied through in-depth interviews with men, their wives, and medical specialists. This research will advance our understanding of male identity and masculinity in a Middle Eastern cultural context, and should be of wide interest to those concerned with the nature of Middle Eastern culture and society.