Commercial Impacts on Assisted Reproductive Technology: A Scoping Review

Abusief, M.E., M.D. Hornstein, and T. Jain. 2007. Assessment of United States fertility clinic websites according to the American Society for Reproductive Medicine (ASRM) Society for Assisted Reproductive Technology (SART) guidelines. Fertility and Sterility 87(1): 88–92.

Article  PubMed  Google Scholar 

Adamson, G.D., J. Mouzon, G.M. Chambers, et al. 2018. International Committee for Monitoring Assisted Reproductive Technology: World report on assisted reproductive technology, 2011. Fertility and Sterility 110(6): 1067–1080.

Article  PubMed  Google Scholar 

Agarwal, A., L.C. Sayres, M.K. Cho, R. Cook-Deegan, and S. Chandrasekharan. 2013. Commercial landscape of noninvasive prenatal testing in the United States. Prenatal Diagnosis 33(6): 521–531.

Article  PubMed  PubMed Central  Google Scholar 

Aleyamma, T.K., M.S. Kamath, K. Muthukumar, A.M. Mangalaraj, and K. George. 2011. Affordable ART: A different perspective. Human Reproduction 26(12): 3312–3318.

Article  CAS  PubMed  Google Scholar 

Alichniewicz, A., and M. Michalowska. 2015. Challenges to ART market: A Polish case. Medicine Health Care and Philosophy 18: 141–146.

Article  PubMed  Google Scholar 

Almeling, R. 2009. Gender and the value of bodily goods: Commodification in egg and sperm donation. Law and Contemporary Problems 72(3): 37–58.

Google Scholar 

Alon, I., J. Guimon, and R. Urbanos-Garrido. 2019. Regulatory responses to assisted reproductive technology: A comparative analysis of Spain and Israel. Journal of Assisted Reproduction & Genetics 36(8): 1665–1681.

Article  Google Scholar 

Arksey, H., and L. O’Malley. 2005. Scoping studies: Towards a methodological framework. International Journal of Social Research Methodology 8(1): 19–32.

Article  Google Scholar 

Armstrong, S., A. Vail, S. Mastenbroek, V. Jordan, and C. Farquhar. 2015. Time-lapse in the IVF-lab: How should we assess potential benefit? Human Reproduction 30(1): 3–8.

Article  CAS  PubMed  Google Scholar 

Armstrong, S., M. Atkinson, J. MacKenzie, A. Pacey, and C. Farquhar. 2019. Add-ons in the laboratory: Hopeful, but not always helpful. Fertility and Sterility 112(6): 994–999.

Article  PubMed  Google Scholar 

Asplund, K. 2020. Use of in vitro fertilization—ethical issues. Upsala Journal of Medical Sciences 125(2): 192–199.

Article  PubMed  Google Scholar 

Attinger, S., E. Jackson, I. Karpin, et al. 2024. Addressing the consequences of the corporatization of reproductive medicine. Medical Law Review. 32(4): 444–467.

Article  PubMed  PubMed Central  Google Scholar 

Bahadur, G., R. Homburg, and A. Al-Habib. 2017. A new dawn for intrauterine insemination: Efficient and prudent practice will benefit patients, the fertility industry and the healthcare bodies. Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology of India 67(2): 79–85.

Article  PubMed  Google Scholar 

Bahadur, G., R. Homburg, A. Muneer, et al. 2016. First line fertility treatment strategies regarding IUI and IVF require clinical evidence. Human Reproduction 31(6): 1141–1146.

Article  CAS  PubMed  Google Scholar 

Bahadur, G., and R. Homburg. 2019. Growing body of evidence supports intrauterine insemination as first line treatment and rejects unfounded concerns about its efficacy, risks and cost effectiveness. JBRA Assisted Reproduction 23(1): 62–67.

PubMed  PubMed Central  Google Scholar 

Bahadur, G., R. Homburg, A. Muneer, et al. 2022. Global inequality in sub-fertility treatment needs safer, cost effective, evidence-based and economically viable choices for patients and stakeholders. JBRA Assisted Reproduction 26(1): 1–2.

Article  PubMed  PubMed Central  Google Scholar 

Balen, A., L. Regan, S. Avery, et al. 2017. Rapid response: Lack of evidence for interventions offered in UK fertility centres. BMJ, January 18. http://www.bmj.com/content/355/bmj.i6295/rr-3. Accessed 20 May 2024.

Barat, S. 2023. Ethical and marketing perspectives on surrogacy tourism. Ethics and Bioethics 13(1-2): 28–37.

Article  Google Scholar 

Barbey, C. 2017. Evidence of biased advertising in the case of social egg freezing. New Bioethics 23(3): 195–209.

Article  Google Scholar 

Barnreuther, S. 2020. Traders of gametes, brokers of values: Mediating commercial gamete donations in Delhi. Economy and Society 49(3): 455–473.

Article  Google Scholar 

Bayefsky, M.J., and L. King. 2019. Ethical and legal analysis of advertising for planned oocyte cryopreservation. Fertility and Sterility 112(3): E51.

Article  Google Scholar 

Beilby, K., I. Dudink, D. Kablar, M. Kaynak, S. Rodrigo, and K. Hammarberg. 2020. The quality of information about elective oocyte cryopreservation (EOC) on Australian fertility clinic websites. The Australian and New Zealand Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology 60(4): 605–609.

Article  PubMed  Google Scholar 

Ben Rafael, Z. 2020. Repeated implantation failure (RIF): An iatrogenic meaningless definition that generates unnecessary and costly use of add-on procedures. Human Reproduction 35(7):1479–1483.

Article  PubMed  Google Scholar 

Bhardwaj, R. 2020. Reinterpreting epistemologies: An exploratory study of the ova donation websites in Delhi. Social Theory & Health 19: 331–346.

Article  Google Scholar 

Bhatia, N, and L. Porceddu. 2021. Emptying the nest egg to fill the nursery: Early release of superannuation to fund assisted reproductive technology. UNSW Law Journal 44 (2): 513–547.

Google Scholar 

Bhide, P., A. Maheshwari, R. Cutting, et al. 2017. Time lapse imaging: Is it time to incorporate this technology into routine clinical practice? Human Fertility 20(2): 74–79.

Article  PubMed  Google Scholar 

Blake, V.K., M.L. McGowan, and A.D. Levine. 2015. Conflicts of interest and effective oversight of assisted reproduction using donated oocytes. Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics 43(2): 410–424.

Article  Google Scholar 

Blakely, B., J. Williams, C. Mayes, I. Kerridge, and W. Lipworth. 2017. Conflicts of interest in Australia’s IVF industry: An empirical analysis and call for action. Human Fertility 22(4): 230–237.

Article  PubMed  Google Scholar 

Bokek-Cohen, Y., and L. Gonen. 2015. Sperm and simulacra: Emotional capitalism and sperm donation industry. New Genetics and Society 34(3): 243–273.

Article  Google Scholar 

Borsa, A., G. Bejarano, M. Ellen, and J. Bruch. 2023. Evaluating trends in private equity ownership and impacts on health outcomes, costs, and quality: Systematic review. BMJ 382: e075244.

Article  PubMed  PubMed Central  Google Scholar 

Braakhekke, M., I. Scholten, F. Mol, J. Limpens, B.W. Mol, ands F. van der veen. 2017. Selective outcome reporting and sponsorship in randomized controlled trials in IVF and ICSI. Human Reproduction 32(1): 2117–2122.

Article  CAS  PubMed  Google Scholar 

Braga, D., A.S. Setti, and E. Borges. 2022. Ethics and IVF add-ons: “We need to talk about it.” JBRA Assisted Reproduction 26(3): 371–373.

Article  PubMed  PubMed Central  Google Scholar 

Brezis, M., A. Malkiel, D. Chinitz, and L.S. Lehmann. 2011. Discordant views of experts and laypersons on the adoption of new fertility technology. Medical Care 49(4): 420–423.

Article  PubMed  Google Scholar 

European IVF Monitoring Consortium (EIM) for the European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology (ESHRE), C. Calhaz-Jorge, J. Smeenk, C. Wyns, et al. 2024. Survey on ART and IUI: Legislation, regulation, funding and registries in European countries–an update. Human Reproduction 39(9): 1909–1924

Calik, K.Y., and H.K. Bulut. 2020. Assessment of Turkey IVF (in vitro fertilization) websites according to the American Society for Reproductive Medicine (ASRM)/Society for Assisted Reproductive Technology (SART) guidelines. Journal of the Pakistan Medical Association 70(3): 421–426.

PubMed  Google Scholar 

Carbone, J., and N. Cahn. 2015. Commentary. Journal of the Law and the Biosciences 2(1): 105–111.

Article  Google Scholar 

Carbone, J., and Madeira, J. 2016. Buyers in the baby market: Towards a transparent consumerism. Washington Law Review 91(1): 71–108.

Google Scholar 

Cattapan, A. 2014. Risky business: Surrogacy, egg donation and the politics of exploitation. Canadian Journal of Law and Society 29 (3): 361–379.

Article  Google Scholar 

Chakravarthi, I. 2016. Regulation of assisted reproductive technologies: Gains and losses. Indian Journal of Gender Studies 23(1): 133–156.

Article  Google Scholar 

Chambers, G.M., E.A. Sullivan, O. Ishihara, M.G. Chapman, and G.D. Adamson. 2009. The economic impact of assisted reproductive technology: A review of selected developed countries. Fertility and Sterility 91(6): 2281–2294.

Article  PubMed 

Comments (0)

No login
gif