Beginn des Projektes
July 2025
PhD project
This project examines the emergence of Assisted Reproductive Technology (ART) from the mid 1970s to the mid 1990s at the intersection of political history, social history and the history of science. Focusing on cryopreservation, it investigates how practices of freezing and storing gametes and embryos have shaped the early development of a global reproductive market. These processes are studied against the backdrop of a shifting paradigm in global health agendas from population control to reproductive health and situated in the context of longer histories of empire and colonial extraction.
