Jody Madeira is a professor of law and co-director of the Center for Law, Society & Culture at the Maurer School of Law at Indiana University. Her scholarly interests involve empirical research; the role of emotion in law; the sociology of law; law, medicine, and bioethics; and the Second Amendment. Her most recent book, Taking Baby Steps: How Patients and Fertility Clinics Collaborate in Conception (University of California Press, 2018), takes readers inside the infertility experience, from dealing with infertility-related emotions to forming treatment relationships with medical professionals, confronting difficult decisions, and negotiating informed consent. Based on a wealth of qualitative and quantitative data (130 patient interviews, 83 interviews with reproductive medical professionals, and 267 patient surveys), Madeira investigates how women, men, and their care providers can utilize trust to collaboratively negotiate infertility’s personal, physical, spiritual, ethical, medical, and legal minefields.

Listen to Professor Madeira as she discusses with Ellen and Jenn:

• Her background and how she got involved in the field.

• How own experience with IVF.

• The start of her research on infertility stereotypes.

• Things that surprised her in her research.

• Her interest and role in the case of Dr. Donald Cline and similar “doctor donors”.

• Researching the closure in infertility fraud cases.

• Her research and thoughts on “sperm tourism”

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