Efficacy & Embodiment

1. It is not clear that patients demographics such as gender and age are huge factors in how successful their attempt at IVF will be

1.1. Centers provide a sense of false hope for patients

1.2. NRTs= "hope technologies" Where hope is commodified as a marketing tool for IVF physicians

2. Egypt's overall cloak of excellence with IVF or ICSI success shields individuals shortcomings

3. Religion

3.1. Patients are religiously mandated to "search for children"

3.2. Journey with IVF tests one's hope in the face of hopelessness and faith in God

3.3. God rewards the "patient" patient

3.4. global technologies= "Technologies of God"

4. Gender roles

4.1. Women are first to blame for infertility

4.2. Even if women are biologically fertile they will be seen as socially infertile if not successful with pregnancy within a marriage

4.3. Feminist argument= women are coerced by patriarchy to undertake physically taxing treatments

4.4. Body histories

4.5. Hormones

5. Efficacy- whether or not you will be able to take home a test-tube baby

5.1. Mother of test-tube baby concerns= Efficacy, Egypt's position in the global arena

6. Problems with privately offered reproductive medicine in the middle east

6.1. Neocolonial reliance on imported European consultants who have little interest in Middle eastern women

6.2. Unnecessary and iatrogenic surgeries that are a common cause of tubal infertility in the region

6.3. Non-specializing physicians who compete for infertile patients by dissuading them from trying IVF

6.4. IVF physicians who attempt to entice patients with grossly inflated claims of success

6.5. "Scientific dishonesty" of 'commercial" IVF centers

7. Factors affecting NRT success rates

7.1. 1. Characteristics of patients= particularly the woman's age and the couples diagnosis

7.2. 2. Characteristics of the IVF process= the number of embryos transferred to a woman's body during a treatment cycle

7.3. 3. Repetition= need to repeat IVF or ICSI procedures several times before receiving successful results

7.4. 4. How IVF centers present their success rates