TY - BOOK AU - Davis,Gayle AU - Davis,Gayle AU - Loughran,Tracey TI - The Palgrave Handbook of Infertility in History: Approaches, Contexts and Perspectives SN - 9781137520791 PY - 2017/// CY - London PB - Springer Nature KW - Human reproductive technology KW - History KW - Handbooks, manuals, etc KW - Infertility KW - Infertilité KW - Histoire KW - Guides, manuels, etc KW - Procréation médicalement assistée KW - General & world history KW - bicssc KW - History and Archaeology KW - thema KW - History of medicine KW - Human reproduction, growth & development KW - fast KW - Infertility and fertilization KW - Medicine and Nursing KW - medicines (material) KW - aat KW - POLITICAL SCIENCE KW - Public Policy KW - Social Security KW - bisacsh KW - Social Services & Welfare KW - Pre-clinical medicine: basic sciences KW - Reproductive medicine KW - Social & cultural history KW - social history KW - history KW - infertility N1 - Free-to-read N2 - This ground-breaking, interdisciplinary volume provides an overdue assessment of how infertility has been understood, treated and experienced in different times and places. It brings together scholars from disciplines including history, literature, psychology, philosophy, and the social sciences to create the first large-scale review of recent research on the history of infertility. Through exploring an unparalleled range of chronological periods and geographical regions, it develops historical perspectives on an apparently transhistorical experience. It shows how experiences of infertility, access to treatment, and medical perspectives on this 'condition' have been mediated by social, political, and cultural discourses. The handbook reflects on and interrogates different approaches to the history of infertility, including the potential of cross-disciplinary perspectives and the uses of different kinds of historical source material, and includes lists of research resources to aid teachers and researchers. It is an essential 'go-to' point for anyone interested in infertility and its history. Chapter 19 is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license via link.springer.com UR - https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/49428 ER -