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Arthur L. Greil
Alfred University
Known for:Sociological research on how infertility is actually experienced, including grief, envy, and identity strain
Key findings
- 2010
With Slauson-Blevins and McQuillan, reviews the field and documents envy of other mothers and grief as recurring themes across qualitative studies of infertile women's own accounts — while finding the evidence on relationship damage genuinely mixed. The Experience of Infertility: A Review of Recent Literature ↗
- 2007
With Torres Stone and McQuillan, finds that lifetime infertility itself doesn't directly lower life satisfaction — the drop is conditional, concentrated in women who see infertility as a defining problem and remain without children. Infertility and Life Satisfaction Among Women ↗