図2は厚生労働省の公式ウエブサイト [16] からのコピーで、女性の年齢と体内の卵子数との関係をあらわしています。2012年度の厚生労働科学研究費補助金 [17] を使った冊子に載っているグラフで、一般向けに、特に生殖機能の男女差に注目して身体と健康につい…
「卵子の老化」キャンペーンの引き金となったのは、2009-2010年にカーディフ大学と多国籍製薬会社メルクセローノがおこなった国際調査International Fertility Decision-Making Study (IFDMS) でした。調査の結果、妊娠・出産に関する知識を測った点数 (Card…
近年の日本では、妊娠・出産に関する大量の情報があふれています。その多くは、産科・婦人科・生殖医学の専門家やその団体がつくり、マスメディアに流れるものです。それらの情報は、結婚・出産を促進する政策を科学的に正当化する根拠として使われてきまし…
Project "Unscientific Knowledge and the Egg Aging Panic" Research Report II 『2010年代日本における「卵子の老化」キャンペーンと非科学的視覚表象』 http://tsigeto.info/18l田中 重人 (東北大学) 2018-08-30日本学術振興会科学研究費補助金 (2017-201…
Project “Unscientific Knowledge and the Egg Aging Panic” Research Report I Unscientific Visual Representations Used for the “Egg Aging” Campaign in 2010s JapanTANAKA Sigeto (Tohoku University) 2018-08-27All texts: https://remcat.hatenadiar…
For the governmental pronatalist policy in the 2010s, “life planning” has been a key phrase. Various kinds of activities have been conducted to encourage youths to make a life plan regarding marriage, children, and other family issues. Lec…
Here is a summary of the history of the egg aging campaign and related discourses. 1974 “卵子の老化” (egg aging) was mentioned in a discussion at a symposium [3] by the Japanese Association of Medical Sciences (JAMS) (in Aug.). 1979 Dr. Su…
Dunson et al. [48] reported the estimated probability of conception for each day of the month for women classified by age (19-26, 27-34, and 35-39 years). Their estimation is characterized by sharp peaks at 2 days prior to ovulation (index…
In 2013, the JSRM launched an official “Q&A” website about infertility issues designed for a general audience [22], which we have already mentioned in p. 5. Figure 9 shows a graph published in the website to answer the questions on how wom…
Figure 8 is adapted from images on the Web. It looks as if a woman's “likelihood of getting pregnant” linearly decreases along with her advancing of age. The downward curve is always used in combination with an upward curve for the “likeli…
The egg aging campaign has also featured graphs that gave a direct impression of the declining fertility with the advancing age of a woman.Figure 6 shows a falsified graph that was used in a petition by nine academic associations, includin…
Figure 2 shows a graph of a woman's age and number of eggs in her body. It was included in a booklet to teach the general audience medical knowledge about human bodies, focusing on sex differences regarding reproduction [16], retrieved fro…
The egg aging campaign in Japan was triggered by the results from the cross-national survey, the International Fertility Decision-Making Study (IFDMS), conducted in 2009-2010 by a Cardiff University research group supported by the global p…
Japan has experienced floods of fake knowledge about human reproduction in recent times. Most of them are created by professionals in the fields of obstetrics, gynecology, and reproductive medicine and spread widely through a mass media ca…
Project “Unscientific Knowledge and the Egg Aging Panic” Research Report I Unscientific Visual Representations Used for the “Egg Aging” Campaign in 2010s Japan http://tsigeto.info/18kTANAKA Sigeto (Tohoku University) 2018-08-27Funding: Jap…
