 In the decade between 1993-2003, she published an “Egyptian trilogy”—three books called "Quest for Conception" (1994), "Infertility and Patriarchy" (1996), and "Local Babies, Global Science" (2003).These books could be described, respectively, as a classic medical anthropological ethnography, a gender studies ethnography, and an STS ethnography of the globalization of IVF into the Muslim Middle East.Throughout these volumes, Inhorn charts Egyptian social and cultural understandings of infertility as a problem of personhood, marriage, kinship, and community life, while explaining how treatment options such as IVF are fundamentally shaped by local religious moralities.