Doctoral Dissertation Research: Technologically-Assisted Later Motherhood in Israel

博士论文研究：以色列的技术辅助晚期孕产

• 批准号: 0922464
• 负责人: Susan Mckinnon
• 金额: $ 1.44万
• 依托单位: University of Virginia Main Campus
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2009
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2009-09-01 至 2011-02-28
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0922464&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Doctoral; Dissertation; Research; Technologically; Assisted

University of Virginia doctoral student Jennie C. Doberne, supervised by Dr. Susan McKinnon, will undertake research on how technologically-assisted later motherhood, which is increasingly common in many countries, affects commonly accepted understandings of family, generation, science, and nation. The research will be carried out in Israel, where female citizens have unparalleled access to assisted reproductive technologies enabling pregnancy at advanced (40-51 years) maternal age.Doberne will conduct twelve months of ethnographic research in Tel Aviv, the hub of Israeli fertility medicine. Data collection will include participant observation in a fertility clinic and a hospital maternity unit; semi-structured interviews with patients, medical practitioners and relevant professionals; direct observations of medical conferences and online patient support groups; and analysis of popular representations of reproduction in media and other public sources. This research examines the changing intersections of gender, technology, family, and aging, a site of emerging public health issues as women in many countries delay childbearing. By focusing particularly on later motherhood, this study will elucidate the wider effects of assisted reproductive technologies on such culturally-specific concepts of kinship and family. The researcher also will examine how accepting risk for pronatalist goals affects the meaning of technology in the context of nation-building.Finally, funding this research supports the training of a social scientist.

弗吉尼亚大学的博士生J.C.由苏珊·麦金农博士监督的Doberne将研究在许多国家越来越普遍的技术辅助下的晚育如何影响对家庭、世代、科学和国家的普遍接受的理解。 这项研究将在以色列进行，那里的女性公民有无与伦比的机会获得辅助生殖技术，使高龄产妇（40-51岁）怀孕。Doberne将在以色列生育医学中心特拉维夫进行为期12个月的人种学研究。数据收集将包括在生育诊所和医院产科进行参与观察;与病人、医生和相关专业人员进行半结构化访谈;直接观察医学会议和在线病人支助小组;分析媒体和其他公共来源中关于生殖的流行表述。这项研究探讨了性别，技术，家庭和老龄化的不断变化的交叉点，随着许多国家的妇女推迟生育，这是一个新兴的公共卫生问题。通过特别关注后来的母亲，这项研究将阐明辅助生殖技术对这种文化特有的亲属关系和家庭概念的更广泛的影响。研究人员还将研究如何接受风险的pronatalist目标影响技术的意义在国家建设的背景下。最后，资助这项研究支持社会科学家的培训。