Marcia Inhorn is a professor of
anthropology and international affairs at Yale University. She is also chair of
the Council on Middle East Studies. Dr. Inhorn’s major research interests include: gender theories, religion and
bioethics, globalization and global health, cultures of biomedicine and
ethnomedicine, and stigma and human suffering. One of Dr. Inhorn’s projects focused
on how assistive reproductive technologies were utilized in Egypt, Lebanon, the
United Arab Emirates and Arab America and the social impact of infertility.
Marcia Inhorn received her
Ph.D. from the University of California at Berkeley. She is the author of three books; “Local Babies, Global Science: Gender, Religion, and In Vitro
Fertilization in Egypt”, “Infertility and Patriarchy: The Cultural Politics of
Gender and Family Life in Egypt” and “Quest
for Conception: Gender, Infertility, and Egyptian Medical Traditions.” Her
works have been awarded the Eileen Basker Prize and Diana Forsythe Prize by the
American Anthropological Association. Dr. Inhorn is a Middle Eastern scholar
and is a founding editor of the Journal
of Middle East Women’s Studies.
“The Public Health Costs of War in Iraq: Lessons from Post-War Lebanon” J of Social Affairs (2006)
“Masturbation, Semen Collection, and Men's IVF Experiences: Anxieties in the Muslim World” Body & Soc (2007)
“Islam, Assisted Reproductive Technologies, and the Middle Eastern State” Babylon: Norwegian J of the ME (2008)
“Medical Anthropology Against War” Med Anthrop Quarterly (2008)
“Right to Assisted Reproductive Technology: Overcoming Infertility in Low-resource Countries,” Intl J of Gynecology & Obstetrics (2009)
Samples: Reconceiving Middle Eastern Manhood: Islam, Assisted Reproduction, and Emergent Masculinities (Manuscript in preparation); Local Babies, Global Sci: Gender, Religion, and In Vitro Fertilization in Egypt (Routledge, 2003)
Articles and co-authored articles: 46 (1986-2009)
Chapters in volumes: 38 (1990-2009)
Edited and co-edited volumes: 6 (1997-2009)