Between “Medical” and “Social” Egg Freezing

Egg freezing has led to heated debates in healthcare policy and bioethics. A crucial issue in this context concerns the distinction between 'medical' and 'social' egg freezing (MEF and SEF)-contrasting objections to bio-medicalization with claims for oversimplification. Yet such categorization remains a criterion for regulation. This paper aims to explore the 'regulatory boundary-work' around the 'medical'-'social' distinction in different egg freezing regulations. Based on systematic documents' analysis we present a cross-national comparison of the way the 'medical'-'social' differentiation f... Mehr ...