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The Journal of Physiology, EarlyView.Abstract figure legend There has been controversy about the structural (capillary) response of skeletal muscle to altered O2 status, involving decreased supply (hypoxia) or increased demand (activity). Here we demonstrate that seven days of activation of skeletal muscle by indirect electrical stimulation led to significant expansion of the capillary ...
David Hauton +3 more
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Gender, Work &Organization, Volume 33, Issue 3, Page 919-930, May 2026.ABSTRACT This article examines how workplace fertility governance operates as a system of control, consent, and inequality shaped by organizational, cultural, and institutional forces. Drawing on feminist theory, we develop a multilevel framework of cascading accountability that integrates symbolic violence, biopolitics, chrononormativity, and ...
Meltem Yavuz Serçekman +1 more
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Global Commercial Surrogacy and International Adoption: Parallels and Differences [PDF]
, 2016 Over the decades, there have been numerous trends in the formation of family for those experiencing infertility. Adoption – initially domestic but now mostly international – has long been a prevailing method, with a dual outcome of also finding homes for
Misca, Gabriela +3 more
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Neo‐Slavery as Instrumentalization: Amazon, Surrogate Motherhood, and Mobile Phones
Sociology Lens, Volume 39, Issue 1, Page 97-105, March 2026.ABSTRACT Despite being perceived as a remnant of the past, slavery persists in today's increasingly economized and biopoliticized world. To thematize the actuality of slavery, we initially return to Aristotle's discussion/justification of slavery as instrumentalization of human beings. Then we revisit Plato's allegory of the cave through three distinct
Bülent Diken +2 more
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Commercial surrogacy and the problem of commodification: Ethical dilemmas and a possible legal response [PDF]
Zbornik Radova Pravnog Fakulteta u Nišu, 2020 Infertility is a serious global reproductive health problem. According to the World Health Organization, between 7% and 15% of all couples of reproductive age in the world are infertile.
Milinković Igor
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Genealogy, 2022 Developments in reproductive (e.g., assisted reproduction, surrogacy) and genetic technologies (commercial DNA ancestry testing) have opened new routes to mixedness that disrupt the relationship between multiracialism and family.
Kimberly DaCosta
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“The Way They Speak of Masters and Johnson”: The Rise and Disappearance of Sex Therapy, 1960–2000
Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences, Volume 62, Issue 2, Spring 2026.ABSTRACT A keyword search of “sex therapy” in the New York Times shows a rapid rise for articles covering the discipline in the 1970s, an equally rapid reduction in the 1980s, and further decline in the 1990s and into the 2000s. This surprising inflection, given that sex as a marketable construction did not decline in the late 20th century, opens room ...
Hannie Smolyanitsky
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Preventing and Addressing Statelessness: In the Context of International Surrogacy Arrangements
Tilburg Law Review, 2014 Everyone has the right to acquire a nationality. However, situations of statelessness persist. International commercial surrogacy presents a very specific contemporary challenge because in such cases it may be difficult for the child’s legal parentage to
Jyothi Kanics
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Invisible women in reproductive technologies: Critical reflections [PDF]
, 2018 The recent spectacular progress in assisted reproductive technologies (ARTs) has resulted in new ethical dilemmas. Though women occupy a central role in the reproductive process, within the ART paradigm, the importance accorded to the embryo commonly ...
Mitra, Piyali
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Sexual healing: The case for a medical exception to the ban on prostitution
Family Court Review, Volume 64, Issue 1, Page 112-123, January 2026.Abstract Sexual dysfunction in young people is on the rise. This trend has dramatic implications for key state interests, including fertility rates, economic growth, and overall well‐being. The serious consequences associated with poor sexual health in childbearing‐age citizens call for creative solutions. One such solution is Surrogate Partner Therapy
Mariah Webb
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