LOCAL BABIES, GLOBAL SCIENCE

1. Chapter 1

1.1. There is often secretive practice of IVF and other new reproductive technologies by infertile women/men in non-Western "societies"

1.2. CROSS-CLTURAL APPRAOCH "GLOBAL MOVEMENT"

1.3. 20 nations of the Muslim Middle East, IVF cenetrs have opened, such as petro-rich Arab Gulf countires (Bahrain and Qatar), North Africa nations (Morocco, Eygpyt.

1.4. The bioethically questionable direction of some of these Western technological developments =troubles Egyptians own moral worlds to bear on questions of scientific progress.

2. Prologue

2.1. Amira and Emad (reproductively "elderly" 40-year-old-woman, with very serious infertile 55-year-old husband)

2.2. Tried IVF treatments had many failed attempts to create a very precious test-tube baby

2.3. Laparoscopy results reveal Emad's sperm count/mobility were "very bad"

2.4. Egyptian Muslims usually don't like the adoptive way (Middle Eastern attach everything to the child)