Middle Eastern Gender Identity and New Reproductive Technology

[02:17 . 99] inhorn密歇根大学人类学家的这个项目研究了阿拉伯文化中的男性身份是如何受到男性不育的影响的。该项目研究新的生殖技术在中东是如何使用（或不使用）的，在中东，宗教虔诚的穆斯林男子被禁止接受捐赠人工授精或合法收养。该项目将研究生殖技术的使用，包括在埃及的一个城市和一个半农村的不孕不育诊所，以及美国此类人口最多的城市底特律的中东男性中使用卵胞浆内精子注射（一种允许严重不育男性生育自己亲生孩子的技术）。该项目将在埃及采访100名不育男性、100名有生育能力男性的对照样本，以及一小部分不育男性的妻子样本，以及医学专家，以了解当父亲身份、婚姻和男子气概本身可能受到威胁时，人们是如何做出道德和务实的决定的。将测试几个假设，将男性不育与文化相关因素联系起来，如吸烟、血缘关系、铅暴露，以及男性气概、婚姻关系、求医和道德。中东男性到美国接受不孕症治疗的“医疗移民”将通过两家阿拉伯裔美国人医疗中心进行重点研究。西方背景对中东男性宗教道德的影响将通过对男性、他们的妻子和医学专家的深入访谈来研究。这项研究将促进我们对中东文化背景下的男性身份和男子气概的理解，并且应该引起那些关注中东文化和社会本质的人的广泛兴趣。

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.