Department of Anthropology and MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut 06520-8277, USA.
Curr Opin Obstet Gynecol. 2012 Jun;24(3):158-63. doi: 10.1097/GCO.0b013e328352140a.
Cross-border reproductive care (CBRC), also known as procreative tourism, fertility tourism, or reproductive tourism, is an increasing global phenomenon. This article reviews the expanding scholarly literature on CBRC, with 2010-2011 representing watershed years for CBRC scholarship and activism.
Terminological debates, missing data, and lack of international monitoring plague the study of CBRC. Nonetheless, it is widely acknowledged that CBRC is a growing industry, with new global hubs, new intermediaries, new media, and new spaces of interaction. Religious bans and legal restrictions have created a patchwork of 'restrictive' and 'permissive' countries, with law evasion being a primary driver of CBRC. Yet, patient motivations for CBRC are diverse and patients' levels of satisfaction with CBRC and its outcomes are generally high. Thus, scholarly concern with CBRC as law evasion must be tempered with qualitative studies of positive patient experiences.
CBRC can be considered a form of 'global gynecology' in which reproductive medicine, tourism, and commerce are converging in the second decade of the new millennium.
跨境生殖保健(CBRC),也被称为生殖旅游、生育旅游或生殖旅游,是一种日益普遍的全球现象。本文回顾了关于 CBRC 的不断扩展的学术文献,2010 年至 2011 年是 CBRC 学术研究和活动的分水岭。
术语辩论、数据缺失以及缺乏国际监测等问题困扰着 CBRC 的研究。尽管如此,人们普遍认为 CBRC 是一个不断增长的行业,有新的全球中心、新的中介机构、新的媒体以及新的互动空间。宗教禁令和法律限制造就了“限制”和“允许”国家的拼凑,法律规避是 CBRC 的主要驱动力。然而,患者选择跨境生殖保健的动机是多种多样的,患者对跨境生殖保健及其结果的满意度通常很高。因此,对 CBRC 作为法律规避的学术关注必须与对积极的患者体验的定性研究相平衡。
CBRC 可以被视为“全球妇科”的一种形式,在新千年的第二个十年中,生殖医学、旅游和商业正在融合。