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Volume 20, 2012 - Issue 40: Sexual and reproductive morbidity: not a problem
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The creation of “monsters”: the discourse of opposition to in vitro fertilization in Poland

Magdalena Radkowska-WalkowiczAssistant Professor, Institute of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology, University of Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland E-mail: [email protected]
Pages 30-37 | Published online: 13 Dec 2012

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Magdalena Radkowska-Walkowicz & Ewa Maciejewska-Mroczek. (2023) ‘Should I Buy Her a Doll’? Motherhood and Turner Syndrome in Poland. Medical Anthropology 42:2, pages 177-190.
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Joanna Mishtal. (2019) Reproductive Governance and the (Re)definition of Human Rights in Poland. Medical Anthropology 38:2, pages 182-194.
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Ewa Maciejewska-Mroczek & Magdalena Radkowska-Walkowicz. (2019) Do ‘in vitro children’ exist? The ‘ontological choreography’ between public debates and private experiences in Poland. Children's Geographies 17:1, pages 36-48.
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Agnieszka Król & Paula Pustułka. (2018) Women on strike: mobilizing against reproductive injustice in Poland. International Feminist Journal of Politics 20:3, pages 366-384.
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Andrzej Kulczycki. (2023) Between a Rock and a Hard Place: Abortion, Catholicism, the Populist Right and Public Health Threats in Poland. Religions 14:10, pages 1271.
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Irena Borowik & Paweł Grygiel. (2023) Differentiation of religiosity and its effects on biopolitical orientations among Catholics: evidence from Poland. Politics and Religion 16:3, pages 435-467.
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Alicja Malina, Marta Roczniewska & Julie Ann Pooley. (2021) Contact, moral foundations or knowledge? What predicts attitudes towards women who undergo IVF. BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth 21:1.
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Rob King, Andrea Nagy, Maria Dempsey & Aoife Rice. (2019) “That which is crooked can be made straight”: Challenges and opportunities of Assistive Reproductive Technologies (ART) in Ireland in the 21st century. Personality and Individual Differences 151, pages 109504.
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Ewa Maciejewska-Mroczek. (2019) Tactile Crease: The Embodiment of Anti-IVF Discourses in Poland The Embodiment of Anti-IVF Discourses in Poland. Ethnologia Europaea 49:1.
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Shirley Ben Shlomo & Oneg Kabizon-Pery. 2019. Pathways and Barriers to Parenthood. Pathways and Barriers to Parenthood 83 99 .
Aleksandra Sobota & Gozde Ozakinci. (2018) Determinants of fertility issues experienced by young women diagnosed with breast or gynaecological cancer – a quantitative, cross-cultural study. BMC Cancer 18:1.
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Magdalena Radkowska-Walkowicz. (2017) How the Political Becomes Private: In Vitro Fertilization and the Catholic Church in Poland. Journal of Religion and Health 57:3, pages 979-993.
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Agnieszka Graff. 2018. Campagnes anti-genre en Europe. Campagnes anti-genre en Europe 225 246 .
Tracie L. Wilson. (2016) Unravelling orders in a borderless Europe? Cross-border reproductive care and the paradoxes of assisted reproductive technology policy in Germany and Poland. Reproductive Biomedicine & Society Online 3, pages 48-59.
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Elżbieta Korolczuk. (2016) ‘The purest citizens’ and ‘IVF children’. Reproductive citizenship in contemporary Poland. Reproductive Biomedicine & Society Online 3, pages 126-133.
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Maria Reimann. (2016) ‘I was with my wife the entire time.’ Polish men’s narratives of IVF treatment. Reproductive Biomedicine & Society Online 3, pages 120-125.
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Jenny Gunnarsson Payne & Elżbieta Korolczuk. (2016) Reproducing politics: the politicisation of patients' identities and assisted reproduction in Poland and Sweden. Sociology of Health & Illness 38:7, pages 1074-1091.
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Claire Stubber & Maggie Kirkman. (2016) The Persistence of the Frankenstein Myth: Organ Transplantation and Surrogate Motherhood. Soundings: An Interdisciplinary Journal 99:1, pages 29-53.
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Elżbieta Korolczuk. 2015. Niebezpieczne związki. Macierzyństwo, ojcostwo i polityka. Niebezpieczne związki. Macierzyństwo, ojcostwo i polityka.
Magdalena Radkowska-Walkowicz. 2015. Niebezpieczne związki. Macierzyństwo, ojcostwo i polityka. Niebezpieczne związki. Macierzyństwo, ojcostwo i polityka.
Magdalena Radkowska-Walkowicz. (2014) Between Advanced Medical Technology and Prayer: Infertility Treatment in Post-socialist Poland. Czech Sociological Review 50:6, pages 939-960.
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Magdalena Radkowska-Walkowicz. (2014) Frozen children and despairing embryos in the ‘new’ post-communist state: The debate on IVF in the context of Poland’s transition. European Journal of Women's Studies 21:4, pages 399-414.
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Elzbieta Korolczuk. (2014) Terms of Engagement: Re-Defining Identity and Infertility On-line. Culture Unbound 6:2, pages 431-449.
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Hubert WiercińskiMagdalena Radkowska-Walkowicz & Hubert Wierciński. 2014. Etnografie biomedycyny. Etnografie biomedycyny.
Hubert WiercińskiElżbieta Korolczuk. 2014. Etnografie biomedycyny. Etnografie biomedycyny.
Magdalena Radkowska-Walkowicz. 2013. Doświadczenie in vitro. Niepłodność i nowe technologie reprodukcyjne w perspektywie antropologicznej. Doświadczenie in vitro. Niepłodność i nowe technologie reprodukcyjne w perspektywie antropologicznej.

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