Publicaties
It gives me time, but does it give me freedom?”: a contextual understanding of anticipatory decision‑making in social egg freezing Vrije Universiteit Brussel
The ethics of social egg freezing is a much-debated topic, yet there is limited research using contextual approaches to understand the experiences and decision-making of women that have used this novel assisted reproductive technology. Based on a small-scale qualitative study in Belgium, this article explores how women’s social contexts have an impact on conceptions of time and anticipatory decision-making in relation to social egg freezing. ...
Medical versus social egg freezing Vrije Universiteit Brussel
'I feel that injustice is being done to me' Vrije Universiteit Brussel
BACKGROUND: During the last decade, the possibility for women to cryopreserve oocytes in anticipation of age-related fertility loss, also referred to as social egg freezing, has become an established practice at fertility clinics around the globe. In Europe, there is extensive variation in the costs for this procedure, with the common denominator that there are almost no funding arrangements or reimbursement policies. This is the first ...
First live birth after fertility preservation using vitrification of oocytes in a woman with mosaic Turner syndrome Vrije Universiteit Brussel
PURPOSE: To report the case of a young woman diagnosed with Turner syndrome (TS) who achieved a live birth using her own oocytes that had been vitrified for fertility preservation.
METHODS: A 25-year-old woman with mosaic (45,X/46,XX) TS was referred for fertility preservation (FP) counseling. Serum anti-Müllerian hormone (AMH) level was normal (6.4 µg/L). In view of the unpredictable rate of follicle loss in TS individuals, she ...
Frictions with autonomy and future fertility Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Hoofdstuk II: Evoluties in definiëring, aanpak en beleid in Vlaanderen: inzichten uit het kruispuntperspectief Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Women's emancipation, but what about men? Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Betrokken vertwijfeling: een intersectionele analyse van partnergeweld in de huisartsenpraktijk Vrije Universiteit Brussel
“I was trying to speak to their human side” Coping responses of Belgium’s undocumented migrants to barriers in health-care access Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Purpose: Undocumented migrants experience major legal constraints in their health-care access. Little is known on how undocumented migrants cope with these limitations in health-care access as individuals. The purpose of this study is to explore the coping responses of undocumented migrants when they experience limited health-care access in face-to-face encounters with health-care providers. Design/methodology/approach: The authors conducted ...