In the past decade, social scientists and bioethicists have produced a significant body of work tracking the technical, legal, ethical, and sociocultural development and implications of human egg freezing. What began as a treatment to “preserve” the fertility of cancer patients has transformed into a technology enabling delayed childbearing. We provide an overview of four research areas that have received the most attention in the sociological and anthropological literature of egg freezing: medicalization, gender, temporality and risk, and markets. What emerges from much of the research is the sense that egg freezing has become entangled with cultural imperatives to take future‐oriented responsibility for one's own health, financial, social, and reproductive needs through self‐management, risk reduction, calculation, and optimization. Throughout, we consider the implications of this novel reproductive technology within national and transnational “reproflows” that stratify reproduction along raced and classed lines.

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冻结时间？鸡蛋冷冻的社会学

在过去的十年中，社会科学家和生物伦理学家开展了大量工作，追踪技术，法律，道德和社会文化的发展以及人卵冷冻的影响。最初作为一种“保留”癌症患者生育能力的治疗方法，如今已转变为一种能够延迟生育的技术。我们概述了鸡蛋冷冻的社会学和人类学文献中最受关注的四个研究领域：医疗，性别，时间和风险以及市场。从许多研究中得出的结论是，冷冻卵子已经与文化习性纠缠在一起，以通过自我管理，降低风险，计算和优化来承担面向自己的健康，财务，社会和生殖需求的面向未来的责任。