“It is our everyday life”. A Swiss interview-based study on care professionals’ experiences in assisting older patients to conceive with medically assisted reproduction
Martani, A.; Neeser, N.B.; Verghote, K.; de Geyter, C.; Wangmo, T. · Ethik in der Medizin · 2025 · Heft 5 · S. 1 bis 23
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IntroductionIn the field of medically assisted reproduction (MAR), new treatments are continuously being developed to allow aspiring parents affected by infertility to have children. In vitro fertilisation (IVF), for example, is a technique discovered in the 1970s where the infertile woman’s oocyte is removed from her body and then fertilized in the laboratory with a male gamete (De Geyter 2012). Later, intracytoplasmic sperm injection (ICSI) was introduced, in which one single spermatozoon is inserted into the oocyte with a micropipette (Palermo 1992). Whereas the latter technique allows to have children in cas…