Living Laboratories
Women and Reproductive Technologies
Published on 1. November 2007
384 pages
978-1-74219-116-4 (ISBN)
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Imagine an unborn foetus having children. In a world where frozen embryo banks and test-tube babies are presented as the ''norm'', the culling of immature eggs from a female foetus is no longer science fiction. How does this affect our concepts of parenting and mothering? What are the ethical and moral implications of research into human reproduction? Robyn Rowland argues that women have become ''living laboratories''. A book that has achieved the status of a classic.
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- BOOK COVER
- TITLE
- COPYRIGHT
- DEDICATION
- CONTENTS
- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
- INTRODUCTION
- REPRODUCTIVE CONSCIOUSNESS: THE LOSS OF INNOCENCE
- CHANGING SOCIAL VALUES: COMMODIFICATION AND CONTROL
- CRUMBLING MOTHERHOOD: MEN AND THE CONTROL OF REPRODUCTION
- PART 1: MOTHERHOOD, MEDICINE AND MEN
- 1 IN VITRO FERTILISATION: MAN MAKES THE EMBRYO
- WHAT HAPPENS IN IVF?
- WHAT ARE THE COSTS?
- THE FAILURE OF IVF TECHNOLOGY
- THE DANGERS
- HOW WOMEN FEEL ABOUT IVF
- 2 THE MASCULINE DREAM OF QUALITY CONTROL: GENETIC ENGINEERING
- SEX DETERMINATION
- GENETIC MANIPULATION
- 3 WOMAN AS A DISSOLVING CAPSULE: THE CHALLENGE OF FETAL PERSONHOOD
- THE EMERGENCE OF FETAL PERSONHOOD
- FETAL PERSONHOOD AND THE LOSS OF WOMEN'S AUTONOMY
- TECHNOLOGIES FOR SCREENING THE FETUS
- TECHNIQUES FOR 'HEALING' THE FETUS
- TECHNIQUES FOR USING THE FETUS
- THE THREAT TO ABORTION
- 4 THE DEPERSONALISATION OF BIRTH MOTHERS: SO-CALLED 'SURROGACY'
- CONTRACTING WOMEN TO BREED
- PAYING WOMEN TO BE SURROGATES
- MOTIVATING WOMEN TO BE ALTRUISTIC: EMOTIONAL EXPLOITATION
- THE COMMISSIONING PARTY
- WOMEN RELINQUISHING THEIR CHILDREN
- THE CHILDREN BORN
- THE FUTURE: DEAD 'MOTHERS'?
- PART 2: SETTING THE CONTEXT FOR REPRODUCTIVE CONTROL
- 5 THE VALUES OF MEDICAL SCIENCE
- THE MASCULINE VALUES UNDERLYING SCIENCE
- THE STRUGGLE FOR CONTROL OVER REPRODUCTION
- THE FRAGMENTATION AND DISMEMBERMENT OF WOMEN
- MEDICINE, SCIENCE AND COMMERCE
- THE DANGERS OF COMMERCIALISATION
- THE ROLE OF THE STATE
- SCIENTIFIC ACCOUNTABILITY
- 6 'REPROSPEAK': THE LANGUAGE OF THE NEW REPRODUCTIVE TECHNOLOGIES
- LANGUAGE SETS THE CONTEXT
- WOMAN AS NATURE, DEFECTIVE AND INEFFICIENT
- THE LANGUAGE OF DISMEMBERMENT, OBJECTIFICATION AND CONTROL
- COMMERCE AND THE NEW CHILD-PRODUCT
- 7 MOTHERHOOD AND INFERTILITY: MEDICAL SCIENCE CO-OPTS IDEOLOGY AND DESIRE
- THE MOTHERHOOD INSTITUTION
- SHAPING WOMEN AND THEIR EXPERIENCES OF MOTHERHOOD AND SELF
- WOMEN'S EXPERIENCE OF INFERTILITY IN PATRIARCHY
- POWER AND RESISTANCE: HOW WOMEN SHAPE THE EXPERIENCES OF INFERTILITY AND MOTHERHOOD
- THE FUTURE OF MOTHERHOOD
- FATHER-RIGHT: THE MALE RESPONSE
- 8 RIGHTS, RESPONSIBILITIES AND RESISTANCE
- DESIRE BECOMES 'RIGHTS'
- THE NATURE OF CHOICE
- 'A WOMAN'S RIGHT TO CHOOSE'
- CONTROL AND THE NATURE OF POWER
- COLLUSION
- RESISTANCE
- NOTES AND REFERENCES
- INDEX
