Doctoral Dissertation Research: Demographic Impacts of State-Sponsored Medical Technologies

尽管自目前最有效的不孕症治疗方法体外受精(IVF)发明以来，关于不孕症生物培养条件的知识发生了巨大变化，但生殖技术的经验可能会有很大差异。试管受精等辅助生殖技术(ART)可被具有质子主义政策目标的政府大量利用和监管；根据谁受益于这些生殖技术，这些政策可能会对人口结构产生重大影响。这个项目培训研究生如何进行严格的、有经验的科学田野调查，探索面临社会压力的少数民族使用国家资助的医疗技术所产生的社会、文化和人口结构变化。Safak Kilictepe将在印第安纳大学Sarah Phillips博士的指导下，对试管受精和少数民族地位之间的关系进行研究。这项研究的背景是，研究人员可以调查生活在社会政治变化环境中的不育少数民族妇女是如何经历不孕的。这位研究人员将探索少数民族妇女如何应对和利用政府监管的试管受精技术来实现自己的生殖利益，并验证自己作为妇女和母亲的性别身份。在这个社会中，妇女的社会经济地位在很大程度上取决于她们的生育力。这项研究将在土耳其进行，土耳其是世界上增长最快、监管严格的试管受精市场之一。这位研究人员将在土耳其首都(4个月)和以土耳其库尔德少数民族人口为主的东南部城市(8个月)进行为期12个月的人种学研究。研究方法包括参与者观察、访谈(108人)、文本和统计数据分析。研究结果将被传播，以指导政策制定者、从业人员和学者编写有关生殖和生殖技术的教育材料和/或制定有关政策。

Even though knowledge about the bio-cultural conditions of infertility has changed dramatically since the invention of in vitro fertilization (IVF), the most effective infertility treatment today, experiences with reproductive technologies can vary significantly. Assisted reproductive technologies (ARTs) such as IVF can be heavily leveraged and regulated by governments with protonalist policy objectives; and depending on who avails themselves of these reproductive technologies, those policies can have significant demographic impacts. This project, which trains a graduate student in how to conduct rigorous empirically-grounded scientific fieldwork, explores what social, cultural, and demographic changes result from the use of state-sponsored medical technologies by ethnic minorities faced with social pressure reproduce. Safak Kilictepe, under the supervision of Dr. Sarah Phillips of Indiana University will conduct research on the relationship between IVF and ethnic-minority status. The research is situated in a context that allows the researcher to investigate how infertile ethnic minority women living in socio-politically changing environments experience their infertility. The researcher will explore how ethnic minority women, who live in societies in which women's socioeconomic status significantly depends on their fertility, respond to and make use of government regulated IVF technology to achieve their own reproductive interests and validate their own gendered identities as women and mothers. The research will take place in Turkey, one of the world's fastest growing and tightly regulated IVF markets. The researcher will conduct twelve months of ethnographic research in the capital city (four months) and a southeastern city (eight months) dominated by a Kurdish minority population in Turkey. The methods include participant observation, interviews (with 108 individuals), and textual and statistical data analysis. Findings will be disseminated to guide policy makers, practitioners, and scholars developing education materials for, and/or making policies about reproduction and reproductive technologies.