Annotated Bibliography: Intermediate draft

Jocelynn Bucy

Spencer Daniels

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For this project I will be looking into the long-term effects of IVF treatment. IVF is a

relatively new medical breakthrough and allows women with fertility issues to still have

children. While the science behind it is revolutionary and its results are often miracles of joy, we

rarely talk about how it affects thing in the long run. It is important to evaluate how being

conceived through IVF affects the health of those children as they move into adulthood. It is also

important to investigate the social and emotional aspects of family are changed with these

procedures. IVF is a very complex topic and one that is constantly changing and research on it is

important.

Citation List:

 Hart, Roger, and Robert J. Norman. “The Longer-Term Health Outcomes for Children

Born as a Result of IVF Treatment: Part I--General Health Outcomes.” Human

Reproduction Update, vol. 19, no. 3, 2013, pp. 232–43,

https://doi.org/10.1093/humupd/dms062

This Medical article was written by Roger Hart with the main purpose of

evaluating the effects of IVF on the children that were a result of it. A study like this is
 important because often people study the effects of Invitro on the women only, and only

for a short time period after the birth. Studies were conducted on children at least 1

years of age and tested for issues with blood pressure, glucose levels, BMI levels, and

thyroid issues. The results show that there is an increase of these issues with children

conceived through IVF. With these results Hart concluded that while the short-term

health of these children is positive, cardiovascular and metabolic health would be

worsened in adulthood due IVF.

Dr. Roger Hart graduated from University of Western Australia and currently

owns his own practice in women and fertility. The reference list is well put together and

relevant. The article itself was published in 2013 by Oxford Academic.

 Klip, Helen, et al. “Risk of Cancer in the Offspring of Women Who Underwent Ovarian

Stimulation for IVF.” Human Reproduction (Oxford), vol. 16, no. 11, Oxford University

Press, 2001, pp. 2451–58, https://doi.org/10.1093/humrep/16.11.2451.

This journal was written by Helen Klip for the OMEGA- project group with the

purpose of putting focus on the correlation between childhood cancer and IVF

treatment. Around 15,000 children were observed with half of them being conceived

naturally and the other half conceived through IVF. The study took 6 years and

documented the occurrence of cancer between each group. The results show 16 cancers

observed between both groups with 15.5 of them expected by the researchers. Because

of these results they concluded that there was no inherently greater risk of cancer in

children conceived through IVF treatment.

 In terms of credibility, this article was published by oxford university, a world-

renowned university known for its expertise in medicine. Helen Klip has published

many journals through them. This journal also had a reliable source list and well

documented research and results with a relatively recent publish date.

 Franklin, Sarah. “Chapter 5 Living IVF.” Biological Relatives: IVF, Stem Cells, and the

Future of Kinship, Duke University Press, Durham, 2013, pp. 185–221,

http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/33472.

This book, specifically chapter, talks less about the medical aspects of IVF and

more about the social and emotional ones. It was written by Sarah Franklin. She speaks

about how the availability of artificial insemination changes gender and sex in society

and the roles of relationships within families. The long term affects of biological

relatives compared to emotional ones is something we know very little about as these

treatments a relatively new. Franklin says “the future of kinship is changing”.

Sarah Franklin went to the University of Cambridge and studied Anthropology,

Cultural theory, and gender theory. She has written three books regarding Genealogy

and kinship as they are affected with new medical advantages, this ome was published

in 2013.
 Massey-Beresford , Helen. “What's next for the World's 5 Million IVF Babies?” Gale

Academic Files, Guardian Newspapers , 23 Nov. 2014, https://go.gale.com/ps/i.do?

p=AONE&u=googlescholar&id=GALE%7CA15651418&v=2.1&it=r&asid=656bb452.

This newspaper article looks away from the IVF itself and puts a little more

thought into the mother. It talks about how the health of whichever women the egg

comes from will most likely affect the child no matter who carries it for 9 months. Of

course, the mom who carries it will also have a tremendous effect on the child as well.

These researchers attribute a lot of these problems to the diet of the mother. Besides

that, this article also discussed new methods of IVF such as freezing embryos and

eliminating artificial hormones.

This newspaper was written by Helen Massey-Beresford who is simply a

journalist, but she takes research and words form many doctors. She cites them all and

puts together the information with much thought. This article was written in 2014 and

gives me another perspective in which to look for when it comes to the effects of IVF.